Elizabeth Bear MACHINE

For Chelsea

The incredible thing was that the machine smiled, smiled perpetually.

—from The Trembling of the Veil, W. B. Yeats, 1922

Man, with his singular laughter, his droll tears,

His engines and his conscience and his art,

Made but a simple sound upon your ears:

The patient beating of the animal heart.

—from Sonnet IV, Wine from these Grapes: Epitaph for the Race of Man, Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1934

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