Status Updates From Mockingbird

‘Things have begun to flood over me. I feel shaken—Yet it was so obvious—clear—once I saw it. Why have I never thought of it before? I had gone to bed last night thinking of those risks the people long ago were taking—I felt not bafflement but anger. 'Memorise my life.' I couldn’t get the phrase out of my mind—There is something in my mind that will not stop insisting itself. She seemed to guess what I was thinking.’

‘‘You robots’ll be running everything—People can’t do shit for themselves anymore’ A looked at him sharply & laugh. ‘I’m being trained for corporate work,’ S said. He had been designed to live forever—to forget nothing. Those who made him had not paused to consider what a life like that might be like. ‘The thing is—silent films are not spoken but written—To be understood—they must be read. Only a mockingbird sings’’