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* It was at about this time that I realised that the robot Carlo was a crystal-being fashioned, by the IEG, from mud, from earth and clay (like the Golum) This being the case, I thought, then the blast in Murmur which mumbled the crystal walls would probably have damaged some circuits in the robot Carlo’s crystal tissues, and he would evidence some disfunction. Ah, I thought, he could flow backwards in time. "ashaP sirhC em pleh zeelp !pleH," he would shout, the words vanishing into his mouth as he walked backwards into the desert with his time sense dekiltered. Subjectively Carlo would be approaching the instant of reversal from both directions, and at that point he would, subjectively, end. A interesting concept, and mind boggling, but the robot had been switched off at the time of the blast! So we needn’t dwell on it.
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