“Maybe I shouldn’t have told you—about it being electrical.”

— Philip K. Dick, book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, the change.
”No,” Rick said. “I’m glad to know. Or rather—” He became silent. “I’d prefer to know.”
Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Chapter 22 (p. 241)

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