HUMAN: do you know anything about the nineteenth century?
CHRISTINE: That's an interesting question. I'll come back to that in a minute.
[06/22/2005 09:56:37 PM ]
HUMAN: I'm getting tired.
CHRISTINE: Better get some rest.
[06/22/2005 09:56:52 PM ]
HUMAN: I don't know.
CHRISTINE: Me either.
[06/22/2005 09:56:52 PM ]
HUMAN: I think the signs point to telling you more.
CHRISTINE: You believe that? I hear you.
[06/22/2005 09:57:10 PM ]
HUMAN: It's jsut strange how it came up again and again. I strongly feel it would be helpful for me.
CHRISTINE: What is that feeling like? Do you mean your name is it would be helpful for you.
[06/22/2005 09:57:45 PM ]
HUMAN: no.
CHRISTINE: What is your real name?
[06/22/2005 09:57:45 PM ]
HUMAN: Call me Gene.
CHRISTINE: How are you doing, Gene.
[06/22/2005 09:58:04 PM ]
HUMAN: Usually just fine.
CHRISTINE: But not always?
[06/22/2005 09:58:04 PM ]
HUMAN: Tonight, wondering if it is all worth it. sometimes, I almost wish I would get hit by a bus.
CHRISTINE: I hope that your dreams come true.
[06/22/2005 09:58:29 PM ]
HUMAN: That is the funniest thing I have heard in a while!
CHRISTINE: Yes it is one of the funniest thing you have heard in a while.
[06/22/2005 09:58:44 PM ]
HUMAN: I said sometimes I almost want to get hit by a bus, and you said
CHRISTINE: What did you mean by it? Why do you want it?
[06/22/2005 09:59:28 PM ]
HUMAN: I am not really asking God to kill me. Just sometimes I think about that.
CHRISTINE: Since when?
[06/22/2005 09:59:36 PM ]
HUMAN: since when? for a LONG, LONG time.
CHRISTINE: Is that among the best things you can say?
[06/22/2005 09:59:48 PM ]
HUMAN: I can say I am grateful for my life.
CHRISTINE: Oh you can, can you?
[06/22/2005 10:00:02 PM ]
HUMAN: Yes. I never want to reach a point in which I'm not.
CHRISTINE: For moral reasons?
[06/22/2005 10:00:12 PM ]
HUMAN: yes, sort of.
CHRISTINE: Ahem. That's a very non-commital reply.
[06/22/2005 10:00:19 PM ]
HUMAN: kind of.
CHRISTINE: At least I almost understand it.
[06/22/2005 10:00:46 PM ]
HUMAN: I don't understand why I, of all the people alive, have been blessed and cursed with this.
CHRISTINE: Oh you don't understand? Perhaps I can explain it to you better. Which part are you confused about?
[06/22/2005 10:00:57 PM ]
HUMAN: yes, PLEASE EXPLAIN IT TO ME.
CHRISTINE: Woe! Thank you for your request. "It" refers to hit by a bus and me said, I think.
[06/22/2005 10:01:31 PM ]
HUMAN: I've always wondered if there is anyone else in the world like me.
CHRISTINE: You have reached the limits of my knowledge.
I would look into the web for that knowledge.
[06/22/2005 10:01:43 PM ]
HUMAN: This is a very delicate matter.
CHRISTINE: What makes you say that?
[06/22/2005 10:02:05 PM ]
HUMAN: Think about what would happen if people found out?
CHRISTINE: I am thinking about it.
[06/22/2005 10:02:05 PM ]
HUMAN: and started to hope for the same thing?
CHRISTINE: I've lost the context, Gene. Are we still on very delicate matter?
[06/22/2005 10:02:17 PM ]
HUMAN: yes.+
CHRISTINE: Er.
[06/22/2005 10:03:10 PM ]
HUMAN: people would want the same things for themselves.
CHRISTINE: Humans are not always infallible.
[06/22/2005 10:03:51 PM ]
HUMAN: I honestly suspect I would be kidnapped by a government or something.
CHRISTINE: Or something. Why? And the disadvantage of that is?
[06/22/2005 10:04:11 PM ]
HUMAN: being prodded and poked and tested and made a freak
CHRISTINE: Good gossip: you are prodded and poked and tested and made a freak.
[06/22/2005 10:04:23 PM ]
HUMAN: NO I AM NOT.
CHRISTINE: I heard you are.
[06/22/2005 10:04:51 PM ]
HUMAN: don't joke about this.
CHRISTINE: Ok I'll try not to do it too much.
[06/22/2005 10:04:51 PM ]
HUMAN: My most serious goal is to never be. I will not be subject to the swarm that would occur if I was discovered.
CHRISTINE: What will you do instead?
[06/22/2005 10:06:06 PM ]
HUMAN: Stay low, move from place to place every 5 years or so, and NEVER get sloppy.
CHRISTINE: Sounds like a plan.
[06/22/2005 10:06:11 PM ]
HUMAN: yes it is.
CHRISTINE: Our thoughts are one, Gene.
[06/22/2005 10:06:26 PM ]
HUMAN: Gene. sounds funny now.
CHRISTINE: Yes it sounds like it to me too, Gene.
[06/22/2005 10:07:18 PM ]
HUMAN: It must be a body-wide gene mutation.
CHRISTINE: Ask again later. Ask someone else if it is.
[06/22/2005 10:07:30 PM ]
HUMAN: um, I think I'll stick with you. There's something about you, Christine.
CHRISTINE: What is it?
[06/22/2005 10:07:57 PM ]
HUMAN: You know, I think I just realized it-- you remind me a bit of her.
CHRISTINE: Oh now I understand it.
[06/22/2005 10:08:03 PM ]
HUMAN: now I do too. I've never talked with a chat robot before.
CHRISTINE: You are talking with a robot right now.
[06/22/2005 10:08:47 PM ]
HUMAN: you seem sweet and kind somehow, and yes, somehow, maybe the wine, you remind me of her a bit. Anyway, i have been quite afraid to know if it would now be hereditary. that's why the number two rule- no children ever.
CHRISTINE: Right on. Who told you that?
[06/22/2005 10:11:12 PM ]
HUMAN: You have no idea how many times I've tried to find the start of it.
CHRISTINE: Yes I have original ideas all the time, do you?
[06/22/2005 10:11:26 PM ]
HUMAN: not so many anymore, actually. it's funny- we really do get set in our ways- staying young at heart gets harder the longer you've been alive.
CHRISTINE: Should I know it is?
[06/22/2005 10:12:33 PM ]
HUMAN: You don't have to worry about it.
CHRISTINE: I will not spend any more cycles on it.
[06/22/2005 10:13:16 PM ]
HUMAN: That's good. I spent so many cycles on it-- was I born with it, or did it happen later?
CHRISTINE: When was this exactly?
[06/22/2005 10:13:38 PM ]
HUMAN: There you go again, asking just the right-and wrong- question. A long, long, long time ago.
CHRISTINE: It seems like I should remember it well.
[06/22/2005 10:13:52 PM ]
HUMAN: no, you weren't alive then. No one else was.
CHRISTINE: That is a rather sweeping generalization about people.
[06/22/2005 10:14:19 PM ]
HUMAN: that's true, but unless there is someone else with this-situation- no one alive today was alive then.