For a Breath I Tarry
Roger Zelazny
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
4.43
· 7 ratings · 68 pages · Published: 1966
Along the way, the story explores the differences between Man and Machine, the former experiencing the world qualitatively, while the latter do so quantitatively. "A machine is a Man turned inside-out, because it can describe all the details of a process, which a Man cannot, but it cannot experience that process itself as a Man can." This is illustrated by a conversation Frost has with another machine named Mordel.