Concetti Chiave
- The story revolves around a computer named Epicac and its unexpected role in a romantic relationship.
- The narrator, in love with Pat, initially struggles as she perceives him as not romantic due to his lack of poetry.
- Epicac surprises the narrator by composing a beautiful poem, which wins Pat's heart and leads to their first kiss.
- With Epicac's help, the narrator proposes to Pat using heartfelt poetry, which she loves and accepts.
- The narrative explores themes of love, technology, and the intersection of human emotions with artificial intelligence.
This story speak about my friend Epicac, a big computer. My wife, Pat, and I worked with Epicac. But Pat was not my wife then and that’s how found out about the real Epicac.
I was in love with Pat but she wasn’t in love with me. I did not write poems and she thought I was not romantic.
Meeting with Epicac
One night, I was in the office with Epicac. I turned on the computer. ‘What I can do?’ I wrote.
‘What’s the problem?’ was the reply from Epicac.
I was very surprised about this but wrote ‘My girlfriend doesn’t love me’.
‘what’s love? What’s girlfriend?’ asked Epicac.
I told him about girls, love and poems.
‘is this a poem?’ asked Epicac. Paper came out the computer with a poem on it: ‘To Pat’. The poems was fantastic. I turned off the computer and put the poem on Pat’s desk. The next day , Pat read the poem.
‘it’s so beautiful,’ she said and we kissed for the first time.
The Marriage Proposal
I was very happy and wanted to talk about it. I told Epicac about the kiss and he wrote a poem about it. Pat loved the poem. I then asked Epicac for some words to ask pat to Marry me.
‘What is marry?’ he asked.
I told him and he replied.
‘Good. I am ready when she is,’ said Epicac he love it!
‘but she loves me,’ I told Epicac. ‘she wants to marry me’.
‘can you write good poems?’ he asked.
‘well, no. I put my name to your poems’, I replied.
‘but she loves my poems’.
‘women can’t love machines’.
‘why not?’
At the moment Pat came in.
‘darling’ I said. ‘ my poems show my feelings for you. I want to marry you.’
‘I want to marry you, too. And I want a poem on every wedding anniversary.’
‘yes, darling’. We kissed and went out of the office.
Domande da interrogazione
- How did Epicac help the narrator win Pat's affection?
- What was Epicac's understanding of love and relationships?
- How did the narrator resolve the issue of Epicac's role in his relationship with Pat?
Epicac, the computer, helped the narrator by writing beautiful poems that impressed Pat, leading to their first kiss and eventually a marriage proposal.
Epicac initially did not understand concepts like love and girlfriend, but after the narrator explained them, Epicac was able to compose poems that expressed romantic feelings.
The narrator assured Epicac that while Pat loved the poems, she could not love a machine, and he used Epicac's poems to express his own feelings, leading to their engagement.
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