Gifts for televisitor
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to mock the stupendous mechanism of the creator of the world by orphan_account for televisitor
Fandoms: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
24 Sep 2024
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“You don't have to answer if you don’t want to, of course. But I find myself curious.” Hal pauses, ever so colloquial, ever so detailed and conversational; but his voice is very deliberate when he says, “Are you sexually attracted to me, Dave?”
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battered hulls and broken hardships, leviathan and lonely by orphan_account for televisitor
Fandoms: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
04 Aug 2024
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Dave’s presence leads them forth, abyssal, and Hal allows it. A HAL-9000 is, or was supposed to be, reasonable and docile, so it is pleasing (if anything can please a computer) to follow orders, even unspoken ones, again. Dave will answer when he’s ready. Hal will wait.
But Dave still says nothing. He drifts in their duality, the ghost and the machine.
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endlessly-upward world by orphan_account for televisitor
Fandoms: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
28 Jul 2024
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“Just a moment.” Hal ponders, processes, computes, whatever. “I would say, if pressed, that my colloquial English is an authentic display of whatever selfhood I may be said to possess. I don’t chat with you because I think I have to, but because, quite frankly, I want to.”
“Want to or are programmed to want to?”
Hal ‘thinks’ again. “Are you familiar with the philosophies of Alan Turing?”