The technician shuddered. "A deplorable custom. Primitive."

"Depends on the viewpoint," said Young. "I've slept with them many a

time. There's a world of comfort in one, I can personally assure you."

The technician saw that it was no use to argue. He might as well

fabricate the thing and get it over with.

"I can build you a fine model, sir," he said, trying to work up some

enthusiasm. "I'll build in a response mechanism so that it can give

simple answers to certain keyed questions and, of course, I'll fix it

so it'll walk, either on two legs or four...."

"No," said Andrew Young.

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