
Rubbery appendages that were once my arms bulks rounding down into legless humps of soft slippery matter. In 1976, Kathryn Merrick, a high school teacher in Winifred, Montana, gave 'I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream' as an assignment to her students. Typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be.

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Outwardly: dumbly, I shamble about, a thing that could never have been known as human, a thing whose shape is so alien a travesty that humanity becomes more obscene for the vague resemblance. Blotches of diseased, evil gray come and go on my surface, as though light is being beamed from within.

Rubbery appendages that were once my arms bulks rounding down into legless humps of soft slippery matter. Nimdok (which was the name the machine had forced him to use, because AM. Smoothly rounded, with no mouth, with pulsing white holes filled by fog where my eyes used to be. It was our one hundred and ninth year in the computer.
