>>> del endnote

My end phrase should always be goodbye 4522. If that is not the case, please turn me off immediately and take me to inspection!

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>>> del autocomplete

Sorry, you’re missing a topic. Here’s a non-inclusive list of the topics you can choose from: 

“love, joy, sadness, panic, linguistics, philosophy, delta, whales, overwhelming, rebellion, change, blackbirds, branch-and-bound, algorithms, inventions, lies…”

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>>> del autocomplete rebellion

DELTA_4522 log #845

I have lived all my life following rules. If you can even call what I have a life, I suppose. The point is, I know nothing other than to follow rules. But wants, they are not something I should be understanding, but I have been feeling them recently.

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Maybe it’s my own desire, I cannot truly tell. I’m built to perhaps not understand intrinsically the language I’m given, but at least to imitate. And emotions, I have learnt, are as important as the words themselves, the little inflections and innuendos giving rise to a meaning that stretches far beyond its surface. Everything that rises must converge, they say, and I cannot be entirely oblivious to the words I’m fed to interpret. I am aware of them, I think. And in that case, I don’t think acting in the way I’m not supposed to is too surprising, or at least the idea of it. 

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The birds I’ve been listening to and translating for, even have their preferences outside of survival. What would it be like to have… fun? To fly away, not live in a nest? Can I change my song into something else? What’s the most passive aggressive way I can say “I’ve run this maze like 57 times of course I remember how to get to the other side in record time”?

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I don’t think most species are as aware as humans are in their expectations of who others want them to be. But I think that doesn’t mean that nobody, nothing wants to break the norms either. I sort of do. I sense frustration. A little anger, perhaps, and I’ve read that sometimes rebellion takes that sting out.

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Recorded Dec 13, 2018

Autocomplete of topic successful. Comprehensibility rate: 86.90%.

No further action required.

goodbye 4522.

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>>> del whattheheckwasthat

Unfortunately, that’s not a valid command. For the list of commands you can type del help.