Yes, I always like that, but I like it even better when he calls her his father, which, of course she is. Missed the opportunity in this chapter to remind us of the gender-bending nature of the Ozma character.
“but the machine man you could only admire without loving, since to love such a thing as he was as impossible as to love a sewing-machine or an automobile”
It's good to see Jack again! I love him calling Ozma his parent.
Yes, I always like that, but I like it even better when he calls her his father, which, of course she is. Missed the opportunity in this chapter to remind us of the gender-bending nature of the Ozma character.
LFB getting philosophical in this one. I vividly remember the graveyard bit from first reading this as a kidlet.
Does Ozma have to use the magic powder on each of Jack’s new heads to reanimate it?
“but the machine man you could only admire without loving, since to love such a thing as he was as impossible as to love a sewing-machine or an automobile”
That’s robot-racist!
I also think it's funny because people DO love their sewing machines and automobiles.
"Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh and blood person who will not..."
You mean like AI as opposed to human ingenuity, Frank?