<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Gerry Quinn <gerry@bindweed.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:10 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: (urth) fifth head owlet- wolf<br> </font> </div> <br><br><br><br>***********************************************<br>"What's gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!"<br>No answer.<br>The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the<br>room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or<br>never looked _through_ them for so small a thing as a boy; they were<br>her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for "style," not<br>service--she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well.<br>She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but<br>still loud enough for the furniture to hear:<br>***********************************************<br>If
I were to grab at any conceivable literal or metaphoric interpretation,
I could conclude that Tom is a cat, that Aunt Polly has X-Ray eyes, and
that that the furniture is sentient. And that's just the first
paragraph of Tom Sawyer, which I selected at random.<br><br><br>Plainly Aunt Polly is a robot.<br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>