For the first time I thought that it would happen to me eventually. I didn’t like this prospect at all. Will they let me keep Monty in this estate? Will he still be functioning then?
“Do you think I’m a pervert?” I asked quietly. “If I was normal, then I probably wouldn’t think of an android as a human being.”
Kelley smiled cheerlessly.
“First, in modern psychiatry the ‘perversion’ diagnosis is no longer used. It was wrong, logically inconsistent. Secondly, you claim that he has an independent mind, and if so, the conclusion is simple: your Monty is a person, though made of other materials than we are. Say, does he behave, think, speak and react like a human?”
I was pondering.
“He doesn’t eat or breathe,” I said finally. “If it were to cut the top of his layer, he wouldn’t bleed. But
