razor edge

"Is this to be an 'empathy' test?  the capillary dilation of the so-called blush response, fluctuation of the pupil. Involuntary dilation of the iris."

"We call it Voight-Kampf for short."

                            "Mr. Deckard, Doctor Eldon Tyrell . . . "

"Demonstrate it.  I want to see it work."

                                                            " . . . Where's the subject?"

"I want to see it work on a person.  I want to see a negative before I provide you with a positive."

                                                             "What's that going to prove?"

"Indulge me."

                                                             "on you?"

"Try her."

proud of yourself

"Proud of yourself, little man?   Proud of all those words that gushed out from between those, what did you call those necrotic threads then?  lips?  What's that sound you are making?  Is it music?  Is it song?  Are you singing to me!?  How sweet.  Look, here, it is singing for us!"

"I burn you.  So, you burn.  Tell yourselves whatever stories you find pleasing.  Stories which fan the flames.  So you burn.  I burn you."


. . . silence . . .

bliss