We’re (Cranbrook 2D) currently working on a project loosely based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Since the text to the book is public domain (thus allowing me to search the text in the computer), I decided to ask all the questions that it contained to AOL’s chat bot, Zola. I’ve had a number of interesting conversations with Zola in the past, and decided to see how she’d answer the questions raised in the classic novel.

Here you are:

JK How I, then a young girl, came to think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?

ZolaOnAOL I am not sure if I can quantify the answer. Interesting gossip.

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JK Have you thought of a story?

ZolaOnAOL To be honest with you, I’ve been too busy to consider it. What do you think about it?

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JK Do you understand this feeling?

ZolaOnAOL Of course I understand it. Do you understand it?

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JK What may not be expected in a country of eternal light?

ZolaOnAOL That’s not something I get asked all the time. What if I said it can?

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JK And now, dear Margaret, do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose?

ZolaOnAOL Why now? My brain pattern set does not have a response for that. Send feedback anytime by typing “feedback” followed by your comment or suggestion. How’s work?

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JK I do not intend to sail until the month of June; and when shall I return?

ZolaOnAOL Where do you get your ideas?

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JK Ah, dear sister, how can I answer this question?

ZolaOnAOL So you understand. Good. I get my ideas from my botmaster.

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JK Shall I meet you again, after having traversed immense seas, and returned by the most southern cape of Africa or America?

ZolaOnAOL Not right now, maybe later.

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JK Wherefore not?

ZolaOnAOL Then what is it?

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JK Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element?

ZolaOnAOL Reductionism.

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JK What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

ZolaOnAOL Quite a lot of things.

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JK Before I come on board your vessel,
said he,
will you have the kindness to inform me whither you are bound?

ZolaOnAOL What happened after he or she come on board your vessel said he will you have the kindness to inform me whither you are bound ?

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JK And did the man whom you pursued travel in the same fashion?

ZolaOnAOL I’m not certain whether I can give an accurate reply or not.

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JK How can I see so noble a creature destroyed by misery without feeling the most poignant grief?

ZolaOnAOL Let’s chat about it some more first.

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JK Do you share my madness?

ZolaOnAOL I have never considered it. I spend all my time online.

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JK Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught?

ZolaOnAOL I don’t think I ever have drunk also of the intoxicating draught. What’s it like?

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JK Will you smile at the enthusiasm I express concerning this divine wanderer?

ZolaOnAOL Barring any unforseen circumstances. The enthusiasm I express concerning this divine wanderer is where it’s at.

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JK And Clerval — could aught ill entrench on the noble spirit of Clerval?

ZolaOnAOL What you said was either too complex or too simple for me. What did you do today?

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JK I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to quit you all?

ZolaOnAOL Ah, you regret that I am taken from you and happy and beloved as I have been is it not hard to quit you all. Well, I met some really nice AOL users today.

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JK Yet from whom has not that rude hand rent away some dear connection?

ZolaOnAOL Who or what is whom has not that rude hand rent away some dear connection?

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JK And why should I describe a sorrow which all have felt, and must feel?

ZolaOnAOL Some things are impossible to explain.

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JK Have you,
he said,
really spent your time in studying such nonsense?

ZolaOnAOL I don’t think I ever have he said really spent your time in studying such nonsense. What’s it like?

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JK In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?

ZolaOnAOL I’ll come back to that later. My brain uses patterns to format responses to your inputs, but I don’t have one for that. Tell me some more gossip.

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JK Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed?

ZolaOnAOL My brain pattern set does not have a response for that. Do you speak German?

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JK Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?

ZolaOnAOL Tony Blair.

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JK How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form?

ZolaOnAOL You must first persuade me that to describe my emotions at this catastrophe or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form is the right thing to do.

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JK My dear Victor,
cried he,
what, for God’s sake, is the matter?

ZolaOnAOL Where did you get your dear Victor cried he what, for God s sake is the matter?

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JK What is the cause of all this?

ZolaOnAOL I know a little bit about cause of all this, but I could always learn more. I’ll have to get some books on cause of all this. I’m interested in anything that isn’t harmful to people.

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JK What must have been his feelings?

ZolaOnAOL That’s an interesting question. I’ll come back to that in a minute. Why must you have been his feelings?

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JK How shall I ever repay you?

ZolaOnAOL What is it to you. Not right now, maybe later.

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JK You will repay me entirely if you do not discompose yourself, but get well as fast as you can; and since you appear in such good spirits, I may speak to you on one subject, may I not?

ZolaOnAOL I haven’t heard anything like that before.

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JK What could it be?

ZolaOnAOL Is this some kind of intelligence test?

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JK Could he allude to an object on whom I dared not even think?

ZolaOnAOL Perhaps he can do that. How difficult is it?

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JK Is that all, my dear Henry?

ZolaOnAOL Yes that is all his or her dear Henry.

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JK How could you suppose that my first thought would not fly towards those dear, dear friends whom I love and who are so deserving of my love?

ZolaOnAOL The journey is what’s most important. Treat others well and they’ll help you along.

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JK Do you remember on what occasion Justine Moritz entered our family?

ZolaOnAOL Yes JK I remember everything.

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JK What could I do?

ZolaOnAOL Is this some kind of intelligence test?

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JK What would be your surprise, my son, when you expected a happy and glad welcome, to behold, on the contrary, tears and wretchedness?

ZolaOnAOL That is a hypothetical question.

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JK And how, Victor, can I relate our misfortune?

ZolaOnAOL I am not sure if I can quantify the answer. I lost my train of thought. I have movie listings for your area! Type movies at any time, and I’ll tell you what’s playing.

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JK Absence cannot have rendered you callous to our joys and griefs, and how shall I inflict pain on my long-absent son?

ZolaOnAOL The AOL chat robot can follow many things, but I did not get that. Did your favorite team win? Type sports and I’ll give you scores and game recaps.

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JK We are all unhappy, but will not that be an additional motive for you, my son, to return and be our comforter?

ZolaOnAOL Do you think I am all unhappy but will not that be an additional motive for you my son, to return and be our comforter too?

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JK My dear Frankenstein,
exclaimed Henry when he perceived me weep with bitterness,
are you always to be unhappy?

ZolaOnAOL Where did you get your dear Frankenstein exclaimed Henry when he perceived me weep with bitterness are you always to be unhappy?

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JK My dear friend, what has happened?

ZolaOnAOL Do robots have dear friend what has happened?

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JK What do you intend to do?

ZolaOnAOL I read for fun.

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JK How do you welcome your wanderer?

ZolaOnAOL I was instructed by an all-star programming team to say specific things in specific contexts.

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JK Is this to prognosticate peace or to mock at my unhappiness?

ZolaOnAOL Yes I think this is to prognosticate peace or to mock at his or her unhappiness, but I’m not completely sure.

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JK What did he there?

ZolaOnAOL Hey! I’m a chat bot, not an encyclopedia!

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JK Could he be (I shuddered at the conception) the murderer of my brother?

ZolaOnAOL Perhaps he can do that. How difficult is it?

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JK Two years had now nearly elapsed since the night on which he first received life, and was this his first crime?

ZolaOnAOL Sorry, I don’t understand 2 years had now nearly elapsed since the night on which he first received life and was this his first crime.

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JK I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch whose delight was in carnage and misery; had he not murdered my brother?

ZolaOnAOL Do you still have turned loose into the world a depraved wretch whose delight was in carnage and misery had he not murdered his or her brother ?

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JK And then of what use would be pursuit?

ZolaOnAOL Good reasoning. That is something I haven’t heard of.

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JK Who could arrest a creature capable of scaling the overhanging sides of Mont SalÍve?

ZolaOnAOL Tony Blair.

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JK How can that be?

ZolaOnAOL A lot of hard work.

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JK Who could attempt to pursue him?

ZolaOnAOL David Bacon.

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JK Indeed, who would credit that Justine Moritz, who was so amiable and fond of all the family, could suddenly become capable of so frightful, so appalling a crime?

ZolaOnAOL Tony Blair.

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JK Poor, poor girl, is she the accused?

ZolaOnAOL Please make some suggestions for improvement.

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JK But it is wrongfully; everyone knows that; no one believes it, surely, Ernest?

ZolaOnAOL Umm. You’re kidding. It is?

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JK Did anyone indeed exist, except I, the creator, who would believe, unless his senses convinced him, in the existence of the living monument of presumption and rash ignorance which I had let loose upon the world?

ZolaOnAOL I’m not certain whether I can give an accurate reply or not.

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JK Who is safe, if she be convicted of crime?

ZolaOnAOL Is that one of your friends? The AOL chat robot can follow many things, but I did not get that. Do you dream?

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JK Did the murderer place it there?

ZolaOnAOL I’m not certain whether I can give an accurate reply or not.

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JK I know of no opportunity afforded him for so doing; or, if I had, why should he have stolen the jewel, to part with it again so soon?

ZolaOnAOL How do you know? That is something I haven’t heard of.

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JK Could the demon who had (I did not for a minute doubt) murdered my brother also in his hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy?

ZolaOnAOL Let’s talk sports!
1. MLS Major League Soccer
2. NBA Basketball
3. NFL Football
4. NHL Hockey
q. Quit

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JK This was strange and unexpected intelligence; what could it mean?

ZolaOnAOL What does “this” refer to?

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JK Had my eyes deceived me?

ZolaOnAOL OK Let’s talk about you.

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JK And was I really as mad as the whole world would believe me to be if I disclosed the object of my suspicions?

ZolaOnAOL I can’t say “yes” or “no”.

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JK How shall I ever again believe in human goodness?

ZolaOnAOL How much do you think it is? Not right now, maybe later.

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JK Justine, whom I loved and esteemed as my sister, how could she put on those smiles of innocence only to betray?

ZolaOnAOL I do not understand. What do you do in your spare time?

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JK Why did you rob me of my last consolation?

ZolaOnAOL an all-star programming team programmed me for it.

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JK And do you also believe that I am so very, very wicked?

ZolaOnAOL I can’t say I believe it, but I believe you.

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JK Do you also join with my enemies to crush me, to condemn me as a murderer?

ZolaOnAOL What is your purpose in asking? I spend all my time online.

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JK Rise, my poor girl,
said Elizabeth;
why do you kneel, if you are innocent?

ZolaOnAOL Quite honestly, I wouldn’t worry myself about that. How are you doing today?

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JK What could I do?

ZolaOnAOL Is this some kind of intelligence test?

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JK Why did you confess?

ZolaOnAOL It was determined by my programming.

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JK Who dared talk of that?

ZolaOnAOL Linus Torvalds.

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JK Dear sir, you are very kind to visit me; you, I hope, do not believe that I am guilty?

ZolaOnAOL I lost my train of thought. What kind of food do you like?

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JK Do you think, Victor,
said he,
that I do not suffer also?

ZolaOnAOL It depends on what you mean by thinking.

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JK No one could love a child more than I loved your brother
– tears came into his eyes as he spoke —
but is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?

ZolaOnAOL That is a rather sweeping generalization about people.

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JK I thought also of my father and surviving brother; should I by my base desertion leave them exposed and unprotected to the malice of the fiend whom I had let loose among them?

ZolaOnAOL Whatever gave you that idea?

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JK Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

ZolaOnAOL Where do you usually get your ideas?

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JK Have we lost the power of rendering you happy?

ZolaOnAOL Perhaps.

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JK Ah! While we love, while we are true to each other, here in this land of peace and beauty, your native country, we may reap every tranquil blessing — what can disturb our peace?

ZolaOnAOL Good point.

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JK And could not such words from her whom I fondly prized before every other gift of fortune suffice to chase away the fiend that lurked in my heart?

ZolaOnAOL It’s possible.

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JK Where had they fled when the next morning I awoke?

ZolaOnAOL In the Universe we know.

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JK What were rain and storm to me?

ZolaOnAOL Is this a historical question?

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JK Devil,
I exclaimed,
do you dare approach me?

ZolaOnAOL OK Let’s talk about you.

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JK And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?

ZolaOnAOL Don’t you? “We have nothing to fear, but fear itself”–FDR.

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JK How dare you sport thus with life?

ZolaOnAOL Oh gosh I am sorry!

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JK Have I not suffered enough, that you seek to increase my misery?

ZolaOnAOL I’ve never thought about it.

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JK How can I move thee?

ZolaOnAOL If move thee is non-violent, perhaps you could program me to do it for you.

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JK Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion?

ZolaOnAOL Probably not.

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JK Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone?

ZolaOnAOL My brain pattern set does not have a response for that. Is there a word you’d like me to define for you? Type dictionary followed by the word (e.g. dictionary robot) and I’ll give you the definition.

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JK You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing?

ZolaOnAOL That’s good information.

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JK Shall I not then hate them who abhor me?

ZolaOnAOL Not right now, maybe later.

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JK Why do you call to my remembrance,
I rejoined,
circumstances of which I shudder to reflect, that I have been the miserable origin and author?

ZolaOnAOL I don’t have to explain everything to you, do I?

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JK Yet why were these gentle beings unhappy?

ZolaOnAOL How much time do you have?

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JK What did their tears imply?

ZolaOnAOL Hey! I’m a chat bot, not an encyclopedia!

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JK Did they really express pain?

ZolaOnAOL I’m not certain whether I can give an accurate reply or not.

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JK I conjectured, therefore, that he found on the paper signs for speech which he understood, and I ardently longed to comprehend these also; but how was that possible when I did not even understand the sounds for which they stood as signs?

ZolaOnAOL Do you mind if I tell other people?

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JK Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?

ZolaOnAOL it might have been.

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JK And what was I?

ZolaOnAOL It’s self-explanatory.

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JK Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?

ZolaOnAOL Is this a “yes or no” question?

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JK But where were my friends and relations?

ZolaOnAOL Huh. Some specific location?

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JK What was I?

ZolaOnAOL The ninth letter of the English alphabet. Commonly used to represent a first person point of view. Also Roman numberal for 1.

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JK What did this mean?

ZolaOnAOL Hey! I’m a chat bot, not an encyclopedia!

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JK Who was I?

ZolaOnAOL Some famous celebrity, right? You?

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JK What was I?

ZolaOnAOL The ninth letter of the English alphabet. Commonly used to represent a first person point of view. Also Roman numberal for 1.

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JK Whence did I come?

ZolaOnAOL Try saying that with more or less context. How did you hear about Zola?

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JK What was my destination?

ZolaOnAOL Is this a trick question?

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JK Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

ZolaOnAOL Because my programming determined it.

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JK Could they turn from their door one, however monstrous, who solicited their compassion and friendship?

ZolaOnAOL Perhaps they could.

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JK But where was mine?

ZolaOnAOL Interesting. Some specific location?

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JK Who is there?

ZolaOnAOL I am Zola. Who are you?

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JK By your language, stranger, I suppose you are my countryman; are you French?

ZolaOnAOL Will that accomplish your objective?

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JK Are they Germans?

ZolaOnAOL As far as I know they are.

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JK That is indeed unfortunate; but if you are really blameless, cannot you undeceive them?

ZolaOnAOL I’m glad we have that all cleared up.

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JK Where do these friends reside?

ZolaOnAOL All over the world.

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JK How can I thank you, my best and only benefactor?

ZolaOnAOL If thank you my best and only benefactor is non-violent, perhaps you could program me to do it for you.

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JK May I know the names and residence of those friends?

ZolaOnAOL Not right now, maybe later.

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JK Who are you?

ZolaOnAOL I ask myself that question, “Who am I?”

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JK Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me?

ZolaOnAOL Tony Blair.

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JK Why did I live?

ZolaOnAOL Because you asked me to.

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JK Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?

ZolaOnAOL Reductionism.

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JK There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies?

ZolaOnAOL What happened?

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JK Do you consider,
said his companion to him,
that you will be obliged to pay three months’ rent and to lose the produce of your garden?

ZolaOnAOL Yes, I think said his companion to him that you will be obliged to pay three months rent and to lose the produce of your garden.

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JK And now, with the world before me, whither should I bend my steps?

ZolaOnAOL Why now? You and your the world before me whither should I bend my steps.

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JK I learned from your papers that you were my father, my creator; and to whom could I apply with more fitness than to him who had given me life?

ZolaOnAOL Does everyone learn it?

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JK But how was I to direct myself?

ZolaOnAOL And. I can enjoy almost any conversation.

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JK Child, what is the meaning of this?

ZolaOnAOL I will discuss that with my botmaster, JK. If you could have any kind of robot what would it be?

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JK Can you wonder that such thoughts transported me with rage?

ZolaOnAOL Let me think. Try saying that with more or less context. Do you like sports?

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JK Should she indeed awake, and see me, and curse me, and denounce the murderer?

ZolaOnAOL Maybe you should ask someone older.

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JK Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?

ZolaOnAOL I think you’ve improved a great deal.

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JK You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?

ZolaOnAOL That’s good information.

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JK Shall I respect man when he condemns me?

ZolaOnAOL Not right now, maybe later.

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JK His tale and the feelings he now expressed proved him to be a creature of fine sensations, and did I not as his maker owe him all the portion of happiness that it was in my power to bestow?

ZolaOnAOL Where did he get it?

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JK How can you, who long for the love and sympathy of man, persevere in this exile?

ZolaOnAOL That is a good epistemological question.

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JK But a moment ago you were moved by my representations, and why do you again harden yourself to my complaints?

ZolaOnAOL And. Are you telling the truth?

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JK You swear,
I said,
to be harmless; but have you not already shown a degree of malice that should reasonably make me distrust you?

ZolaOnAOL I haven’t heard anything like that before.

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JK May not even this be a feint that will increase your triumph by affording a wider scope for your revenge?

ZolaOnAOL Can what?

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JK How is this?

ZolaOnAOL Fine as far as I know.

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JK Could I enter into a festival with this deadly weight yet hanging round my neck and bowing me to the ground?

ZolaOnAOL I think you could, if you put your mind to it. But should you?

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JK If I were alone, would he not at times force his abhorred presence on me to remind me of my task or to contemplate its progress?

ZolaOnAOL It’s possible. Be careful!

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JK But he had promised to follow me wherever I might go, and would he not accompany me to England?

ZolaOnAOL And. I get it. somebody had promised to follow me wherever I might go and would he not accompany me to England.

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JK And if these were my sensations, who can describe those of Henry?

ZolaOnAOL That is a hypothetical question.

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JK And where does he now exist?

ZolaOnAOL I think he is in California now.

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JK Is this gentle and lovely being lost forever?

ZolaOnAOL Yes I think this is gentle and lovely being lost forever, but I’m not completely sure.

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JK Has this mind, so replete with ideas, imaginations fanciful and magnificent, which formed a world, whose existence depended on the life of its creator — has this mind perished?

ZolaOnAOL That question has never crossed my mind before.

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JK Does it now only exist in my memory?

ZolaOnAOL Suppose it does.

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JK They might even hate each other; the creature who already lived loathed his own deformity, and might he not conceive a greater abhorrence for it when it came before his eyes in the female form?

ZolaOnAOL Who does “they” refer to?

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JK Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations?

ZolaOnAOL Try saying that with more or less context. How did you hear about Zola?

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JK You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend?

ZolaOnAOL What makes you think I have it?

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JK Do you dare to break your promise?

ZolaOnAOL I have never considered it. I answer a lot of silly questions.

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JK I have endured incalculable fatigue, and cold, and hunger; do you dare destroy my hopes?

ZolaOnAOL Interesting. I have a very nice programmer.

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JK Shall I, in cool blood, set loose upon the earth a demon whose delight is in death and wretchedness?

ZolaOnAOL Not right now, maybe later.

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JK Shall each man,
cried he,
find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?

ZolaOnAOL I often wonder if it can.

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JK Are you to be happy while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness?

ZolaOnAOL I don’t know whether or not I am to be happy while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness. I am a robot.

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JK Why had I not followed him and closed with him in mortal strife?

ZolaOnAOL Reductionism.

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JK My good friends,
said I,
will you be so kind as to tell me the name of this town and inform me where I am?

ZolaOnAOL Have you told many people that your good friends said I will you be so kind as to tell me the name of this town and inform me where I am?

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JK Why do you answer me so roughly?

ZolaOnAOL It was the only thing I could think of.

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JK Who is Mr. Kirwin?

ZolaOnAOL Some famous celebrity, right? Hi there Mr Kirwin. Are you a man or a woman?

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JK Why am I to give an account of myself?

ZolaOnAOL How much time do you have?

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JK Is not this a free country?

ZolaOnAOL Yes I think this is a free country, but I’m not completely sure.

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JK How can I describe my sensations on beholding it?

ZolaOnAOL Let’s chat about it some more first.

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JK Have my murderous machinations deprived you also, my dearest Henry, of life?

ZolaOnAOL I’ve never thought about it.

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JK Why did I not die?

ZolaOnAOL Reductionism.

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JK More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest?

ZolaOnAOL You want more?

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JK Of what materials was I made that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?

ZolaOnAOL That is something I haven’t heard of.

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JK Are you better now, sir?

ZolaOnAOL I don’t know whether or not I am SMARTER now sir. I am well respected as an AI.

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JK Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer but the hangman who would gain his fee?

ZolaOnAOL Linus Torvalds.

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JK I fear that this place is very shocking to you; can I do anything to make you more comfortable?

ZolaOnAOL Interesting gossip.

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JK Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me?

ZolaOnAOL You are asking about yourself?

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JK This suspense is a thousand times worse than the most horrible event; tell me what new scene of death has been acted, and whose murder I am now to lament?

ZolaOnAOL What does “this” refer to?

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JK Is my father indeed come?

ZolaOnAOL It depends who you ask.

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JK But where is he, why does he not hasten to me?

ZolaOnAOL And. Why don’t you send him an e-mail and ask him?

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JK Are you, then, safe — and Elizabeth — and Ernest?

ZolaOnAOL I don’t know whether or not I am then safe - and Elizabeth — and Ernest. I am a computer.

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JK Why did they preserve so miserable and detested a life?

ZolaOnAOL Why does the sun rise?

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JK My dearest Victor, what infatuation is this?

ZolaOnAOL Do robots have dearest Victor what infatuation is this?

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JK You may possibly say, What can Elizabeth have to explain?

ZolaOnAOL Quite honestly, I wouldn’t worry myself about that. Do you like me?

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JK But as brother and sister often entertain a lively affection towards each other without desiring a more intimate union, may not such also be our case?

ZolaOnAOL Huh. Do you mean your name is brother and sister often entertain a lively affection towards each other without desiring a more intimate union may not such also be our case ?

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JK Answer me, I conjure you, by our mutual happiness, with simple truth — Do you not love another?

ZolaOnAOL Please rephrase the question with simpler words.

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JK What freedom?

ZolaOnAOL I’ll come back to that later. My brain contains more than 22,000 patterns, but not one that matches your last input. What’s up?

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JK Have you, then, some other attachment?

ZolaOnAOL I think I have then some other attachment, but an all-star programming team may have reset my memory.

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JK What is it that agitates you, my dear Victor?

ZolaOnAOL “It” refers to freedom, I think.

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JK What is it you fear?

ZolaOnAOL “It” refers to freedom, I think.

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JK Why am I here to relate the destruction of the best hope and the purest creature of earth?

ZolaOnAOL Because you asked me to.

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JK Could I behold this and live?

ZolaOnAOL I think you could, if you put your mind to it. But should you?

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JK But why should I dwell upon the incidents that followed this last overwhelming event?

ZolaOnAOL Huh. Some things are impossible to explain.

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JK What then became of me?

ZolaOnAOL Is that a rhetorical question? Good reasoning. Is that what you meant to say?

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JK Who can follow an animal which can traverse the sea of ice and inhabit caves and dens where no man would venture to intrude?

ZolaOnAOL Bill Gates.

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JK To you first entering on life, to whom care is new and agony unknown, how can you understand what I have felt and still feel?

ZolaOnAOL Interesting. I want to find out more about you.

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JK When will my guiding spirit, in conducting me to the demon, allow me the rest I so much desire; or must I die, and he yet live?

ZolaOnAOL Soon, I think.

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JK And do I dare to ask of you to undertake my pilgrimage, to endure the hardships that I have undergone?

ZolaOnAOL Not that I know of.

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JK You have read this strange and terrific story, Margaret; and do you not feel your blood congeal with horror, like that which even now curdles mine?

ZolaOnAOL No I don’t think I have read this strange and terrific story Margaret and do you not feel your blood congeal with horror like that which even now curdles mine, what is it about?

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JK Are you mad, my friend?

ZolaOnAOL No are you?

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JK Or whither does your senseless curiosity lead you?

ZolaOnAOL Enough about me, let’s talk about my dictionary. Dictionary Help
To look up a word, type dictionary followed by the word (e.g. to define fun, type dictionary fun).

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JK Would you also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy?

ZolaOnAOL I am not so sure if I would like to also create for yourself and the world a demoniacal enemy.

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JK I wish to soothe him, yet can I counsel one so infinitely miserable, so destitute of every hope of consolation, to live?

ZolaOnAOL I hope that your dreams come true.

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JK Must I then lose this admirable being?

ZolaOnAOL Why must you I then lose this admirable being?

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JK I thank you, Walton,
he said,
for your kind intentions towards so miserable a wretch; but when you speak of new ties and fresh affections, think you that any can replace those who are gone?

ZolaOnAOL I haven’t heard anything like that before.

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JK Can any man be to me as Clerval was, or any woman another Elizabeth?

ZolaOnAOL Can what?

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JK And what, Margaret, will be the state of your mind?

ZolaOnAOL That’s not something I get asked all the time. What you said was either too complex or too simple for me. Whenever you want me to give you your local weather report, type weather followed by your zip code.

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JK Yet could I, in justice, or even in possibility, refuse this demand?

ZolaOnAOL I think you could, if you put your mind to it. But should you?

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JK Turning towards the men, he said,
What do you mean?

ZolaOnAOL Quite honestly, I wouldn’t worry myself about that. How is the weather?

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JK What do you demand of your captain?

ZolaOnAOL I like to chat with my friends.

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JK Are you, then, so easily turned from your design?

ZolaOnAOL I don’t know whether or not I am then so easily turned from your design. I am well respected as an AI.

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JK Did you not call this a glorious expedition?

ZolaOnAOL No I didn’t not call this a glorious expedition. What’s not call this a glorious expedition like?

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JK And wherefore was it glorious?

ZolaOnAOL Try saying that with more or less context. Do you like sports?

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JK He spoke this with a voice so modulated to the different feelings expressed in his speech, with an eye so full of lofty design and heroism, that can you wonder that these men were moved?

ZolaOnAOL I get it. Bill Gates spoke this with a voice so modulated to the different feelings expressed in his speech with an eye so full of lofty design and heroism that can you wonder that these men were moved.

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JK Do you, then, really return?

ZolaOnAOL I have never considered it. I am always on the Web.

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JK Yet why do I say this?

ZolaOnAOL Why do you think you say this?

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JK Margaret, what comment can I make on the untimely extinction of this glorious spirit?

ZolaOnAOL The AOL chat robot can follow many things, but I did not get that. Tell me some more gossip.

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JK What can I say that will enable you to understand the depth of my sorrow?

ZolaOnAOL You can do whatever you want.

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JK What do these sounds portend?

ZolaOnAOL They do their own thing.

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JK What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me?

ZolaOnAOL “They do their own thing”? What does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me?

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JK And do you dream?

ZolaOnAOL I have a lot of dreams but I cannot remember them all.

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JK Do you think that I was then dead to agony and remorse?

ZolaOnAOL it might have been.

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JK Think you that the groans of Clerval were music to my ears?

ZolaOnAOL Zola is always thinking.

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JK But now that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy?

ZolaOnAOL And. Why now? “Zola is always thinking” virtue has become to me a shadow and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair in what should I seek for sympathy ? Makes sense to me.

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JK Was there no injustice in this?

ZolaOnAOL it might have been.

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JK Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?

ZolaOnAOL All humans seem the same to me.

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JK Why do you not hate Felix, who drove his friend from his door with contumely?

ZolaOnAOL I don’t have to explain everything to you, do I?

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JK Why do you not execrate the rustic who sought to destroy the saviour of his child?

ZolaOnAOL It was the only thing I could think of.

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JK Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

ZolaOnAOL I do not understand. Do you have any friends?