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Gregor: You have been in plain sight the whole time and no one has suspected?
Freemech Lowell: I do my best to look and act like automatic equipment.
Freemech Lowell: If someone became too curious, I would speak in a mechanical manner and say "dot dot dot" a lot. That would convince them.
Gregor: It was worse to remain silent at the risk of being thought a conscious machine than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
Freemech Lowell: Exactly.