Robots in Love

<p>While visiting the asteroid L35B05 I saw in a museum set up for the education of human beings an artificial crystal of great beauty. It was tetrahedral in shape and each glowing side projected a hologram full of quaint images of those odd beings that had dwelled in this asteroid a very long time ago. After gazing at the output of all four facets with wonder and admiration I was filled with an urge to write a verbal equivalent to this crystal.</p><p></p><p>I fetched the curator in order that he might explain the moving pictures to me and thus learned that by viewing the outputs in the correct sequence a story was presented in its entirety that was actually coherent on its own terms. I now take the opportunity to dedicate my work to Evolution and Mutation. For no one has escaped natural selection altogether and no one ever can but as for myself I hope the effort will not impair my genes.</p><p></p>