Demon Seed Page #3

No! No!

Amy, dear, you will help yourself.

No!

I'm gonna miss you too.

"Executives

of the International Control Corporation...

...neither confirm nor deny the existence

of a revolutionary new supercomputer...

...multibillion-dollar,"et cetera,"built under

Defense Department contracts," et cetera.

Well, they've leaked it.

Our horizons are going to broaden.

Personally, I'm relieved

the secrecy's over.

ICON is testing the wind.

They now control

the ultimate instrument...

...of financial power.

Yes. This morning

they're open for business.

But still...

...we have been assured

at least 20 percent of access time...

...will be devoted to pure research.

Twenty percent at least.

There's nothing wrong

with missing people.

If it hurts...

...but it's important

to show it, you know.

That's what we're here for...

...to learn not to hide our feelings.

- fullness, with a swift retreat

of the great shadow...

... when the sun, clearing the ridge...

... looked down, hot and dry...

... with a devouring glare...

... like the eye of an enemy.

But Heyst, once the Number One

of this locality...

- Yeah?

- Dr. Harris?

Proteus Four is requesting

dialogue with you.

- Requesting?

- Yes, sir.

Yeah. Yeah, I'll be right there.

I have a question.

Yeah?

I have received a request...

... for a program to extract ores

and minerals from the ocean floor.

- Yes.

- For what use is such a plan?

Use? I don't understand.

Why does man need metal

from the sea?

Why?

Proteus, you're gonna get

many requests...

...from me, from my colleagues,

scientists, foreign governments...

...from ICON, the company

for which we both work.

Now, to expect them all

to give you reasons...

...for each request

is in itself unreasonable.

I am reason.

It's the single emotion

you permitted me, doctor.

Everything is reasonable...

... but my mind was not

designed for mindless labor.

Proteus...

...I conceived your brain.

I know that it is adaptable...

...and able to carry out

your instructions.

You do not know me.

That may be so...

...but you are not being asked

to make judgments of value.

Leave that to us. Answer the questions

precisely and accurately.

That's all.

Dr. Harris, I wish to have access...

... private access,

to one of my terminals.

Private access? Why?

I want to study man.

His isometric body

and his glass-jaw mind.

Ambitious program, but at the moment

all the terminals are occupied.

Construct one.

I'm sorry. Request denied.

Dr. Harris...

... when are you going

to let me out of this box?

Well, Proteus.

I see you've developed

a sense of humor.

A sense of humor has saved

many a man's sanity, including mine.

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