“He didn’t have to observe the niceties of etiquette when talking to a computer.”
Robert Silverberg (1935) American speculative fiction writer and editor
Short fiction, Born with the Dead (1974)
““Don’t be sentimental,” he chided. “Memories aren’t enough.”
It was fruitless to argue the niceties of that: he was telling her that he was in pain; he didn’t want platitudes or metaphysics.”
Part Twelve “Stalking Paradise”, Chapter i “A Chapter of Accidents”, Section 4 (p. 517)
(1987), BOOK THREE: OUT OF THE EMPTY QUARTER
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