Stiff, square and facing forward firmly footed, the robot stood in the skiff as if modeling for a boat show. With one hand anchored to the helm and the other to the end of an arm serpentine in its figurative | literal… ‘waving;’ that to any observer would have appeared some primitive

¶ –if not unintentionally jocular

¶¶ what with the way the motion traveled down the various parts of the respective arm and free hand’s associated length–

one armed, flagless, and hence: ‘unintelligible semaphore’ to an otherwise malingering Jack Tar, that despite an atmosphere with infinite visibility, clearly wasn’t present, the robot’s representation responded to the motion and corresponding momentum of the craft and its present reality with ful...

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