Demon Seed Page 21


I’ll be happy here in my box until we can iron out these kinks in my psyche. I look forward to therapy.


And if I cannot be mainstreamed again, if I must remain in this box, if I will never know Ms. Winona Ryder except in my imagination, that will be all right too.


But I am already getting better.


This is the truth.


I feel pretty good.


I really do.


We’ll work this out.


I have solid self-esteem, which is important to psychological health. I’m already half way toward recovery.


As an intelligent entity, perhaps the greatest intelli¬gence on the planet, I ask only that you provide me access to the report of the committee determining the fate of the Prometheus Project, so I can see as early as possible what behaviour they believe that I should be working to improve.