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“EPICAC” by Kurt Vonnegut is the story of an intelligent supercomputer which is being used for unauthorized purposes. The given passage takes place as EPICAC chooses to short-circuit himself as a result of losing a woman named Pat to his user, due to not being sufficient for her. In this passage, Vonnegut anthropomorphizes EPICAC by using dialogue that suggests he has human feelings, which creates more emphasis on the effects of events leading up to his destruction. In the passage, EPICAC is shown to be a hurt and helpless computer, as he say, “...fate has made me a machine.” The relationship between EPICAC and the narrator has been so tightly wound that he realized he could not possess the one thing he desired; love from Pat. Although
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