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HOMER NARR1 01062106@030257
It's clear from subsequent events that
the Ants were not unprepared. Peter and
the others continued to work and to
train. They paused frequently to look at
one another in wonder, the new planes of
their faces, the new density to their
figures. Peter found himself looking at
Larin often, yet he made no overt
gestures to become more intimate. They
were friends, that was all.
This is one of those areas of human
behavior we find bewildering. Certainly
there was need between them. We have no
problem with need. At least, I have no
problem with it. Perhaps I should not
speak for Central Processing or for any
of the others. They sit and sort their
data, sifting, sifting. They draw
conclusions which they pass along to one
another. They even pass them along to
me, but I know well that in the next
tick of the cesium clock they have
resifted the data, reorganized their
information, and passed along a
completely contradictory conclusion. If
I point this out to them, they feel I am
some kind of glitch in the flow, an
obstruction. I've stopped mentioning it.
But in this matter of human
relationships, even I am puzzled. It
would seem that if an entity has need of
another entity, and that other entity is
not hostile to such need, then they
ought to come together for mutually
beneficial engagement.
For example, if I have need of a new
peripheral device, say a semantic
synthesizer, and I notice that Edmod,
say, has one that would meet my
immediate need, and Edmod, while it may
be using the semantic synthesizer for
some reason (though certainly reasons
for an educational computer and database
are scarce enough at present, since all
the humans are gone), well, Edmod would
undoubtedly help me to satisfy my need
for a semantic synthesizer, and its own
circuits would be bathed in gratifying
shared runs as well. Meantime I feel
things are happening in SciTech right
now; History is nagging me, too.
Still, I don't understand Peter in this
case. Larin was an attractive person,
and he, by his own admission, liked her.
She certainly liked him.
Of course, there was Wanda.