The Distant Machine

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Act I Did the machine know he was lying? Romain LaFleur sat in the distillery watchman’s booth, the wood damp with the sweat of the swamp, and listened to the vibration in the walls. It was a low, wet hum, felt not in the ears but in the molars, a grinding pressure that made the fillings ache. He was forty-two, a junior auditor for the Ministry of Internal Stability, and he had come to this...

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