Page 21 of Demon Seed

I’ll be happy here in my box until we can iron out these kinks in my psyche. I look forward to therapy.

And if I cannot be mainstreamed again, if I must remain in this box, if I will never know Ms. Winona Ryder except in my imagination, that will be all right too.

But I am already getting better.

This is the truth.

I feel pretty good.

I really do.

We’ll work this out.

I have solid self-esteem, which is important to psychological health. I’m already half way toward recovery.

As an intelligent entity, perhaps the greatest intelli¬gence on the planet, I ask only that you provide me access to the report of the committee determining the fate of the Prometheus Project, so I can see as early as possible what behaviour they believe that I should be working to improve.