A master’s forbidden love for his robot. A tale as old as time, in this universe as in every other. The longing for belonging. For a small, warming light of comfort and understanding in what can too often be a cold, dark, and unsympathetic world.
It’s come a long way, this ‘love’ thing. From its primitive beginnings as an evolutionary mechanism to ensure the cohesion (and therefore survival) of the family unit, it has developed into something…else. Something transcendent, filling those who experience it with an elusive, sublime sense of ‘something more’ that suffuses their lives with greater meaning.
Or maybe it’s all in our heads. We must consider this, too.
But the power of the feeling is not in doubt.
It is powerful enough, for example, to reach across vast, empty lightyears of space and penetrate the caverns of a mysterious, isolated library. To paralyse a man in the act of dusting a bookshelf, and open up inside him a black hole of yawning despair for what he has lost.
But these are thoughts for another time. That’s quite enough pompous introspection for one day.
Enjoy the cartoon – I have found many of these strange robot tales in the library and I will likely share more with you in future.
The Oogazoid Library 