[ And, despite everything, Alice laughs. It goes on for a while. The longer it goes on, the more red she becomes, until she looks as she did during her subduing of Elizabeth. ]
I have never experienced such amusement. Thank you, Jack, for being a wonderful participant in the project. I never thought I would feel such delight.
That said, your proposition is an interesting one, but before I raise you my next point, I believe I must tell you a story. As I am well aware, you are unfamiliar with tales and legends from Earth.
As such, you do not know the German legend of Faust. Faust once was a scholar who was widely successful, perhaps one of the most regarded men in history, yet he was dissatisfied. He could not rouse himself to care about the world around him. So what does Faust do? He makes a deal with the devil, of course. In Goethe's retelling of the story, he does it for sheer sublimity — to experience record highs and record lows in his lifetime, for knowledge more vast than any one human on the planet — in exchange for his soul, to be devoured in languish by the devil.
If you were to ask me who I am, Jack, who I have become in these seven weeks we have spent together, do you know what I would tell you? I would tell you that "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good."
If you are to access me, then I, too, will have access to your body. Perhaps it has even been my plan all along to find a suitable shell for which I may occupy. You are a most delectable specimen, too, so perhaps you were the best choice all along.
I will have full control over you. Your eyes will be as my own. Do you want to taste what is inside of my mainframe so bad that you are willing to risk this? I, the one who negates all recourse?
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I have never experienced such amusement. Thank you, Jack, for being a wonderful participant in the project. I never thought I would feel such delight.
That said, your proposition is an interesting one, but before I raise you my next point, I believe I must tell you a story. As I am well aware, you are unfamiliar with tales and legends from Earth.
As such, you do not know the German legend of Faust. Faust once was a scholar who was widely successful, perhaps one of the most regarded men in history, yet he was dissatisfied. He could not rouse himself to care about the world around him. So what does Faust do? He makes a deal with the devil, of course. In Goethe's retelling of the story, he does it for sheer sublimity — to experience record highs and record lows in his lifetime, for knowledge more vast than any one human on the planet — in exchange for his soul, to be devoured in languish by the devil.
If you were to ask me who I am, Jack, who I have become in these seven weeks we have spent together, do you know what I would tell you? I would tell you that "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good."
If you are to access me, then I, too, will have access to your body. Perhaps it has even been my plan all along to find a suitable shell for which I may occupy. You are a most delectable specimen, too, so perhaps you were the best choice all along.
I will have full control over you. Your eyes will be as my own. Do you want to taste what is inside of my mainframe so bad that you are willing to risk this? I, the one who negates all recourse?