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Engineered
your eyes are shade 2.9 brown, exactly 63.5 millimeters
apart--falling exactly within the range of
established parameters, as indeed everything about you does.
if you could only return to the
factory in which you were assembled,
then you would see. you could rest
your hands on the cold, steel railing and look
down on the robotic assembly line, which once
screwed those very hands into their sockets--
could see them recreating engineered perfectionism
day in and day out. and you could take comfort in
this process, and what it means for you, a product
of this uniform repetition: you don't have the capacity
to be restless. to make a mistake. no, the precision
is in you, in your perfect teeth and flawless skin, as
indeed everything you ever do/have done/will do
is orderly. rational. calculated to accomplish the most
while wasting the least. to produce the utmost
happiness. so don't worry. be at peace, knowing that the
analyses certified that all the stress you will ever come under won't
break you--a comforting fact, especially
since you can't heal. your body is, after all, made of
wires and equations, rubber and steal, which cannot
repair themselves, cannot grow. so yes (back to your
original question--) you can be replaced.
you are perfectly replaceable. (your schematics
are stored in zero's and one's in the computer and
backed up in hard drives at a dozen banks.)
don't ask any more illogical questions.
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