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The Machine Speaks

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Head of Orpheus

There are tales of Albertus Magnus having an earthen head, which during the 13th century was said to speak and move until Thomas Aquinas breaks it by accident. There's Alexander's statue of Ascalapius, the Greek god of medicine that was said to speaking but Lucian wrote that the sounds came via a concealed man who spoke to the word of the word ofThe word of theword. And so I think that's what people have considered one of the earliest forms of science fiction.

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