![]() ![]() After all, while men wielded more obvious power than women, they often did so at the expense of personal danger, and no Auditor liked the prospect of personal danger. But lengthy consultation decided that if the driver took care, and liaised at all times with the rest of the Auditors, this risk was minimal and worth taking, considering the goal. Some luckless Auditor might be risking death by ‘operating’ the body. They strove to be as indistinguishable as hydrogen atoms, and with none of the latter’s joie de vivre. The Auditors avoided death by never going so far as to get a life. Then they learned that they could make a human body which worked if an Auditor was inside it. This was annoying, since human beings, without any special training or education, seemed to be able to make working replicas quite easily. ![]() The trouble was that the result didn’t do anything but lie there and, eventually, decompose. But why were they flawed?īuilding a human being was easy the Auditors knew exactly how to move matter around. Therefore, they’d reasoned, this was further evidence that the humans who required it were flawed, and this was why attempts to make use of them were doomed. This was puzzling, because gold did not seem to the Auditors to hold any significant value for a human body - it needed iron and copper and zinc, but only the most minute traces of gold. They’d used human agents before, because early on they’d worked out that there were many, many humans who would do anything for sufficient gold. What they couldn’t see was what was happening. They could see the energies flow from node to node, they could see the brain glittering like a Hogswatch decoration. They could see the pop and sizzle of the thoughts. ‘I do not wish to continue in this way any longer than necessary,’ she added. She could tell this disturbed the other Auditors. ![]() ‘Sometimes thinking is like talking to another person, but that person is also you.’ ![]() It is like being … questioned, all the time.’ The darkness behind the eyes, where the little voice is, and everything else. But it is essential for humans to use the personal pronoun. * * * - Thief of Time (Terry Pratchett) | Read books online free without registration and downloading Terry Pratchett « Thief of Time» Subject: Comic Fantasy/Science-fiction * * *Īnd one added, And you have not died! To be an individual is to live, and to live is to die! ![]()
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