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fru-n-quiz3 августа 2025 г.But I've never understood her, really, and with her death, her direction was lost. All direction was lost, and we began to burrow into ourselves. Now we seldom come out. I'm the exception there."14- fru-n-quiz3 августа 2025 г."His suicide was the result of my having manipulated the safety margins of his freeze. I'd never actually met him, you know. I was decanted after he last went down to sleep. But I did know him very well. The cores know everything. I watched him kill my mother. <…>He strangles her in bed."Читать далее
"Why did he kill her?" Her unbandaged eye focused on the girl's face.
"He couldn't accept the direction she intended for our family. She commissioned the construction of our artificial intelligences. She was quite a visionary. She imagined us in a symbiotic relationship with the AI's, our corporate decisions made for us. Our conscious decisions, I should say. Tessier Ashpool would be immortal, a hive, each of us units of a larger entity. Fascinating.13 - fru-n-quiz3 августа 2025 г.“When she comes around -if she comes around -we'll see what color her eyes are."17
- fru-n-quiz3 августа 2025 г."Wonderful," the Flatline said, "I never did like to do anything simple when I could do it ass-backwards."19
- fru-n-quiz1 августа 2025 г.My Jane's an ambitious girl, in her perverse way." He smiled again. "She has designs on the family empire, and a pair of insane artificial intelligences, kinky as the concept may be, would only get in our way. So. Comes her Riviera to help her out, you see.115
- fru-n-quiz1 августа 2025 г."Oh, Peter," 3Jane said, with the sort of gentle exasperation ordinarily reserved for children.113
- fru-n-quiz1 августа 2025 г.You may be the statistical animal, darling, and Case is nothing but, but I possess a quality unquantifiable by its very nature." He drank.
"And what exactly is that, Peter?" Molly asked, her voice flat.
Riviera beamed. "Perversity."
<…>"An enjoyment of the gratuitous act. And I have made a decision, Molly, a wholly gratuitous decision."18 - fru-n-quiz1 августа 2025 г."You killed my father," 3Jane said, no change whatever in her tone. "I was watching on the monitors. My mother's eyes, he called them."
"He killed the puppet. It looked like you."15 - fru-n-quiz1 августа 2025 г.Everything has to be a mystery. Would you have hurt us?"
Case felt Molly hesitate. "I would've killed him. I'd've tried to kill the ninja. Then I was supposed to talk with you."
"Why?" 3Jane asked, tucking the cameo back into one of the djellaba's inner pockets. "And why? And what about?"15