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Each character was a betrayer, a thief stealing some part of my own life (adoption, abandonment by parents, therapy, therapist who had something to hide from me), pieces of those interior stories that will not go away. I did not know if bringing them to the fore would purge them from my mind or mor…

[...] no escaping it, the joy or humiliaton of every decorating decision you've ever madde, the occasion that brought each object into your life perpetually, inflinchingly present: the brutality of the everlasting.

It was like those moments in your most intimate relationships when you look over and are startled to remember: that other person is not you and is not yours to define. He or she suddenly seems to be some alien whom, inexplicably, you have decided to trust. Even as the two of you lie wrapped in each…

[...] About her robot Kismet she says, "We're trying to play the same game that human infants are playing. They learn because they solicit reactions from adults."

But an infant's need for attention is not simply a "game." There is a true, internal reality that precedes the child's interchange wi…

The question stayed with me - Do you have to go to the bathroom and eat to be alive? - because it seemed to me that Breazeal's intent was to cite the most basic acts required by human bodily existence, and then see them as ridiculous, even humiliating.

But after a while I cam eto the conclusion:…