The robot sampled the sound of a man clearing his throat through its internal speaker. The non-physical effort and ‘robot agony’ associated with finally getting the Help Wizard to disappear was now in ‘the human conception of’ its past. With the transcription of their digital dialog logged and indexed

¶–any data that lent to further streamlining the forced ‘Hold Court Session’ with the Help Wizard; allowing the robot to vanquish the Help Wizard back to the lonely seclusion of its isolated domicile in as prompt and concise a manner as possible -should it ever again manifest- being of such considerable value to the robot that any ‘ascribable worth’ as might apply to ‘the human conception of:’ a so-called ‘precious commodity’ couldn’t b...

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