Narration: At this juncture the natural Trurl began to plead on bended knee with the mathematical Trurl, and even went so far as to pay him a few compliments. The latter finally said:
Machine says: “I have made, I must confess, some progress.
Machine says: The whole question is fantastically complex, and therefore I set up a special university here, appointed myself rector
Machine says: then filled its various departments—which at present number four and twenty—with suitable doubles of myself, that is Trurls twice removed.”
Trurl says: “What, again?”, groaned the natural Trurl, remembering Cerebron’s Theorem.
Machine says: “There’s no ‘again’ about it, imbecile, we have special circuit breakers to prevent any such regressus ad nauseam.
Machine says: as you know, at an accelerated rate).
Machine says: commencement exercises to attend, promotions to review—we simply have to have another computer, there’s no room left in this one, what with all the offices and laboratories.
Machine says: At least eight times the size.”
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