“I don’t understand. It was only a model, after all. A process with a large number of parameters, a simulation, a mock-up for a monarch to practice on, with the necessary feedback, variables, multistats . . .” muttered Trurl, dumbfounded. “Yes. But you made, the unforgivable mistake of over-perfecting your replica. Not wanting to build a mere clock-like mechanism, you inadvertently—in your punctilious way—created that which was possible, logical and inevitable, that which became the very antithesis of a mechanism. . . . ”
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