From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!allegra!honey
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: net.nlang
Article-I.D.: allegra.391
Posted: Tue Jun  8 09:43:52 1982
Received: Wed Jun  9 01:02:51 1982


     The messages they are capable of transmitting and receiving are al-
most  as monotonous as the song of Mercury.  They have only two possible
messages.  The first is an automatic response to  the  second,  and  the
second is an automatic response to the first.
     The first is, "Here I am, here I am, here I am."
     The second is, "So glad you are, so glad you are, so glad you are."

peter honeyman

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passage from "The Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.