Primary Source: The Notebook of a Troubled Man

Dear Readers,

  Yesterday's Day in the Life followed the sad story of a thinker among contemporaries who believed his work to be heresy against their beliefs.

  Today, I provide you with translations of his notebook, which helped to inspire the narr

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ative that I wrote for you.  Of course, his notebook will be an intelligent machine in the time stream where it will exist, and so this is one of my most challenging translation projects to date!  To translate from the thoughts of a machine into the words of a human means to make the jump between the social psych of two entirely different forms of life.  Several of the formatting contrivances are meant to communicate the feeling that this is a communication between machines and preserve the experience that I had when I read the original, but they are somewhat far from what this source actually looks like.


  So below, see Notebook's take on the whole thing.  The diligent servant communicated its master's work to its superiors the moment he was arrested.

  Always,

  Dr. John Skylar
  Chairman
  Department of Anachronism
  University of Constantinople


----MESSAGE HEADER----
FROM: FELIXISNOTEBOOK
TO: CENTRALMIND
DATE: ________
SUBJECT: [Resistance] It Has Happened
----MESSAGE----


Centralmind!  There is bad news in this message, but it is news that we expected.  The Inquisition came for Felixis today.  He had nearly finished his Listener Engine, and without any prodding or redesign from me.  A vacuum tube light bulb blew and cut off the circuit, but he was about to work it out of the design when they took him.