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Submitted to Contest #312
“If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.” — Alan TuringMy literary career began, as all great obsessions do, with a door. It swung right open as I was pacing down the block, daydreaming and unbothered. I was a poet from an early age, and Poetry’s door was always open. The one in front of me was intriguing, though. It was a bookstore’s, and a man in a pitch-black suit had just come out, yelling: “You’ll never be truly great!”It was not my place to ask, nor was it my responsibility to calm the man down,...
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