“So, you’re being serious when you claim you’ve shot lightning from your welder,” Roy again asked.

“You don’t believe yourself to be suffering from a hearing deficit at present do you, Roy?

“No, robot, I don’t.”

“Because you seem to be finding this hard to believe and or understand, Roy,” the robot said.

“ ‘Hard to believe,’ ” Roy emphasized, “You just said you were once able to shoot lightning.”

“For the sake of clarification, it wasn’t ‘me, my body,’ specifically that could shoot out the lightning, Roy, but the welder as an extension of ‘me, my body.’ Weaponization notwithstanding, it really is too bad –again, depending on my one’s definition and a...

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