Ray: anyway, you do look amazing
Molly: you say that every time we meet
Ray: i mean you look 20 again, only more beautiful than at the start of the book
Molly: i know thatand's how youand'd want me
Ray: ok, you were an attractive young woman when i first met you and you still project yourself as a beautiful young woman at least when iand'm with you
Molly: thanks
Ray: are you saying that youand're a machine now?
Molly: a machine? thatand's really not for me to say itand's like asking me if iand'm brilliant or inspiring
Ray: i guess the word machine in 2099 doesnand't have quite the same connotations that it has here in 1999
Molly: itand's hard for me to recall now
Ray: oh well
Molly: iand'm really just dabbling but creating music is a great way for me to stay close with jeremy and emily
Ray: creating music sounds like a good thing to do with your kids even if they are almost 90 years old. so could i hear it?
Molly: uh iand'm afraid you wouldnand't understand it
Ray: so it requires enhancement to understand?
Molly: yes most of it does. for starters, the symphonies and frequencies that a mosh canand't hear and it has much too faster tempo and it uses musical structures that a mosh could never follow
Ray: canand't you create art for non-augmented humans? i mean thereand's still a lot of depth possible. consider beethoven, he wrote almost two centuries ago and we still find his music exhilarating
Molly: yes there is a genre of music. all the arts actually, where we create music and art that a mosh is capable of understanding
Ray: and then you play mosh music for moshes?
Molly: hmm now thatand's an interesting idea. i suppose we could try that, although moshes are not that easy to find anymore. itand's really not necessary though, we can certainly understand what a mosh is capable of understanding. the point though is to use the mosh limitations as an added constraint.
Ray: sort of like composing new music for all instruments?
Molly: yeah new music for old minds
Ray: maybe we should kiss goodbye
Molly: just a kiss?
Ray: weand'll leave it at that for this book. iand'll reconsider the ending for the movie
Molly: hereand's my kiss. now remember iand'm ready to do anything or be anything you want or need
Ray: iand'll keep that in mind
Molly: thatand's where youand'll find me
Ray: too bad i have to wait a century to meet you
Molly: or to be me
Ray: yes that too. actually molly, there are a few other questions that have occurred to me. what were those limitations that you referred to? what did you say you were anxious about? what are you afraid of? do you feel pain? what about babies and children? molly?
