Repeating the past (2007) – Peter Watts
What you did to your uncle’s grave was unforgivable.
Science fiction short stories
What you did to your uncle’s grave was unforgivable.
It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So... a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations.
Before I try to rest I will set down these notes in preparation for the report I must make. What I have found is so singular, and so contrary to all past experience and expectations, that it deserves a very careful description.
The slovenly wub might well have said: Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.