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Susan was talking about art today about that surrealist guy who painted little businessman floating through the sky and apples that Philip entire rooms MMA greet. She said that if surrealism was around today, it had last 10 minutes and be stolen by ad agencies to sell long distance calls and aerosol cheese products. Probably true then, Susan went on to say that Surrealism was exciting back whenever it happened because society had just discovered the subconscious, and this was the first visual way people had found to express the way the human subconscious works. Susan then said that the big issue nowadays is that on TV and in magazines, the images we see while they appear surreal really aren't surrealistic because they're just random. There's no subconscious underneath to generate the images. So this got me to thinking, What if machines do have a subconscious of their own? What if machines right now are like human babies, which have brains but no way of expressing themselves except screaming, crashing? What would a machine subconscious look like? How does it feed off what we give it? If machines could talk to us, what would they say? So I stare at my multi sink and my power book and wonder what's going through their heads. How did the interview go? Betsy asked him that night as soon as he got off the train. Tell me all about it. I don't know, Tom said. I wouldn't get my hopes up. I'm one of about 40 people being considered. You'll get it, she said. I'm sure you will. Don't get your hopes up. I talked to a real estate agent today, she replied. He said We could probably get $15,000 for our house, maybe more. And he's got some wonderful places selling for about 30,000. For Pete's sake, Tom said, Aren't you rushing things a little? It doesn't do any harm to plan, does it? She asked with an injured air. You better just pretend nothing's happened at all, he said. Then you won't be disappointed if nothing does happen. Tom tried not to think about the interview with Walker. Probably it would be a week or two before he heard from United Broadcasting, he figured. But as things turned out, a letter from Walker arrived at Westport. Only three days later, Betsy took it from the mailman, ripped it open and immediately called Tom at the Sean and Hauser Foundation. It's here, she said. The Merriman just brought it. Walker wants to see you at 11 o'clock next Tuesday for another interview.