‘Sir . . . Is all this really necessary? It is only one mind . . .’ ‘You do not understand the importance. That one mind has in all likelihood pushed out another mind, which has been driven out and pushed into another . . . It starts a chain. If we are unlucky, that chain could continue on, and on. More and more minds behaving not according to Direction. The clean-up work required has the potential to be vast, even limitless. Damage control . . . The universe is already chaos. We do our best to reign in that chaos, to shape it to Her Direction. But no matter the ability of our machines to
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