2.   She was a teacher. She lit up. She told me not to be afraid to be manufactured. To be immortal until I wasn’t. Like me, she could talk without moving her mouth.

3.   To be assembled and disassembled.

4.   To dis-ease and dis-order.

5.   To be a modern child. To be worth your weight in gold.

6.   To be worth less and less as you grow older, to be an old, cheap child.

7.   Abject, object, select.

8.   There once were two anatomical manikins, twins. The one on the left did all the talking, the one on the right had no face. The one on the left was muscles and organs. The one on the right was bones.

9.   Everyone can see through me. Everyone can see all the people inside me. In my computer model, which can separate into layers, there are so many different people inside me, I myself haven’t even met them all yet. My twin to the left of me, or the right of me. One of me has a face, one of me can talk to the audience.

10.  Can the whole world see me all at once?

11.  I’m living in the future. I have also left myself behind. As if there’s a front and a back, as if time were like walking through the back door of a house and out through the front. As if there were rooms and floors inside. As if time were a flood filling all the rooms and closets, breaking the windows and making everything touch everything else all at once.

12.  The positive me is testing the negative me, always asking me questions and trying to trick me into believing it is human, or that I am human, or that we are both machines. All of these machines inside us: lungs, heart, gut, brain, eyes, everything moving of their own volition. A flock of birds, a pack of wolves. I am like one hundred electric eels. Our skin is an extravagant tongue, tasting everything, making the dark things inside us jealous. Those stealthy sea creatures, always plotting and scheming, rarely giving me the news.

13.  In the future, no one is completely human. Some people never tire of upgrading. I wanted wings until all the countries moved into the air.

14.  I let Deckard rape me so, you know, it wasn’t rape. I remember playing the piano at home. I remember having my picture taken. Being a replicant means you never have to be a powerless child. You never have to be old. Time moves around you, but you never change. You have less than the life span of a pet dog but look how well people treat their dogs.

15.  If I were a dog I would mate with a wolf. Devolve. I think humans remember being wild, too. I could eat all this light and turn into a white room.