Thomas Kinkade HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS painting

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themselves, to the end of evolving a species that would prey upon itself and choose no other mate but WESCAC, which then would breed them all sterile! A proposal fantastic in every respect: the professor of cereal-grains returned poisons and ordinary pussycats; WESCAC'sgaffe became a West-Campus joke and calmed the fears of many whom Max's gloomy warnings had disturbed. As the New TammanyTimes asked in a playful editorial, "What has studentdom to dread from an intelligence that can't even build a better mousetrap?"
But Dr. Eierkopf and his associates had been neither disappointed nor amused. What the newspaper and cereal-grains people didn't know was that the rat-problem had been the first test of the NOCTIS system: WESCAC's thinking had been truly if crudelymalinoctial, like a simple-minded undergraduate's; the very absurdity of theÜberkatzen proposal was a sign of success, for it indicated plainly that WESCAC's reasoning had been influenced -- nay, overmastered -- by what could only be calledlust. Significantly, its program was by no means illogical, however impracticable: but for the first it had been guilty of rationalizing. This meant that it now possessed a sort of subconsciousness -- irrational, imperious, in a wordnoetic - -