I have no mouth and i must scream am meaning
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He may have been collecting memories or glimpses into the thoughts of humanity. It's possible the computer was using his energy as a life source or collecting thoughts from him. He often disappears for great stretches of time, returning pale and drained of blood. Nimdok has a strange, unexplained relationship with the god computer. The man's identity is rather muddled, but he bares German nationality, perhaps even as a Nazi or sympathizer. My question is, how do you enforce a name change as a computer? Perhaps I do not want to know. His name has been altered by AM to resemble a set of sounds the machine thinks is pretty funny. Nimdok is the most obscure character of the short story. I have investigated whether there is any significance to this character's nontraditional name, coming up empty-handed. Does he know Benny is doomed to die and does not wish for Ellen to prevent his salvation? Does he resent Ellen for her love of Benny's genitalia? Is he misogynistic or is Ellen an easier target for his frustrations? In any case, it is the only purposeful action made by the shoulder-shrugger in the story. Here is an interesting dilemma the one deliberate action Gorrister makes is to attack Ellen when she attempts to stop Benny. Gorrister is also content to see the bird monster tear apart at the humans. Gorrister refuses to see a glimpse of hope in traveling to the ice cavern, knowing that AM would not have him starve and risk losing a plaything. The exactness of my conjecture is never confirmed, nor denied. Did the computer truly change Gorrister's personality entirely? It's more likely in my eyes that 109 years of torture did that for him, with no alterations required. He now solely wishes for death, a fate that ironically, the war could have given him. He was a pronounced conscientious objector with a "can-do" attitude. Gorrister, once a passionate and proactive political member of society, has been mentally handicapped to the brink of indifference. Gorrister, a former truck driver, is another case of strange inconsistencies that leave the reader curious as to the extent of AM's alteration. Thing whose shape is so alien a travesty that humanity becomes more obscene for the vague Outwardly: dumbly, I shamble about, a thing that could never have been known as human, a Blotches ofĭiseased, evil gray come and go on my surface, as though light is being beamed from within.
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Rubbery appendages that were once my arms bulks roundingĭown into legless humps of soft slippery matter. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing white holes filledīy fog where my eyes used to be. He describes himself thusly, "I am a great soft jelly thing. Not at all.” I am not so sure, what do you think? Of course at the conclusion of this dastardly tale, Ted is transformed into a slimy, terrible bubble of incapability. He is perhaps an unreliable storyteller, asserting "I was the only one sane and whole.
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While possible, Ted is keen to broadcast paranoia throughout the story. He asserts that his state of mind has not been altered and the others have grown hate for him in response. He remarks confidently that the other four have been drastically changed to entertain the computer, and to spite them. While the 1995 computer game expanded the character lore of our protagonists, little is said about them in the actual source material. He acts quickly to seize freedom at the hands of a small spear formed from ice and is kind to the others mostly, even if he resents them. I imagine however, there was much time for self-reflection in the belly of AM. He appears to be quick-witted and self-aware. This is of course in spite of the 109 years of torture he and the gang have endured unendingly since the extinction of mankind at the hands of a supercomputer. The narrator and sole survivor of AM's torment is Ted.