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Helena
Nor defiance?
Hallemeier
Defiance? I don't know. Only rarely, from time to time.
Helena
What?
hallemeier
Nothing particular. Occasionally they seem to go off their heads. Something like epilepsy, you know. It's called Robot's cramp. They'll suddenly sling down everything they're holding, stand still, gnash their teeth—and then they have to go into the stamping-mill. It's evidently some breakdown in the mechanism.
Domin
A flaw in the works that has to be removed.
Helena
No, no, that's the soul.
Fabry
Do you think that the soul first shows itself by a gnashing of teeth?
