Mind Webs - Helen O Loy

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3:12Short stories from the worlds of speculative fiction. This is Michael Hansen or the mind web story written by a lawyer.

4:20In 1938, the title is Helen O'Loy. One of the many places in which it appears is a collection edited by Lawrence Jennifer, called 18 Greatest Science Fiction Stories. I'm an old man now, but I can still see Helen as Dave on tractor and still hear him gasp as he looked her over. Man, isn't she a beauty? She was beautiful. A dream and spun plastics and metal, something that keeps might have seen dimly when he wrote his son. If Helen of Troy had looked like that, the Greeks must have been pikers when they launched only a thousand chips. At least, that's what I told Dave. Helen of Troy, eh? He looked at her tag. At least it beats this thing K-2W-88.

5:21Hmm, Helen. Hmm, Helen of O'Loy. Now, not much swing to that Dave, too many unstressed syllables in the middle. How about Helen of O'Loy? Hmm, Helen of O'Loy she is, Phil. And that's how it began. One part duty, one part dream, one part science. At a stereo broadcast, a stereo mechanically, and the result is chaos. The dildard people had performed a miracle and put all the works in a girl-modeled case. Even the plastic and rubber-ite face was designed for flexibility to express emotions. And she was complete with tear glands and taste buds ready to simulate every human action from breathing to pulling hair. I performed plenty of delicate operations on living tissues, and some of them had been tricky, but I still felt like a pre-med student, as we opened the front plate of her torso and began to sever the leads of her nerves. Dave's mechanical glands were all prepared, complex little bundles of radio tubes and wires that heterodined on the electrical-thought impulses

6:29and distorted them as a drennel and distorts the reaction of human minds. Instead of sleeping that night, we poured over these schematic diagrams of her structures, tracing the thought mazes of her wiring, severing the leaders, implanting the heterones as Dave called them. And while we worked, a mechanical tape-fed, carefully prepared thoughts of consciousness and awareness of life and feeling into an auxiliary memory coil, Dave believed in leaving nothing to chance. It was growing light as we finished, exhausted and exultant. All that remained was the starting of her electrical power. Like all the billard max, she was equipped with a tiny atom motor instead of batteries. And once started, she would need no further attention. Dave refused to turn her on. We had to wait until we've slept and rested, he advised. I'm as eager to try as you are, but we can't do much studying with our minds half dead. Turn in, and we'll leave Helen until later.

7:32Even though we were both reluctant to follow it, we knew the idea was sound. We turned in and sleep at us before the air conditioner could cut down to sleeping temperature. And then Dave was pounding on my shoulder. Phil, Phil, he snapped out of it. I grown, turned over and faced him. Well, what is it, did Helen? No, it's old Mrs. Van Styler. She vise her to say her son has an infatuation for a servant girl, and she wants you to come out and give counter hormones, that the summer camp in Maine. Rich Mrs. Van Styler. I couldn't afford to let that account down, now that Helen had used up the last of my funds, but it wasn't a job I cared for. Counter hormones, that'll take two weeks full time. Anyway, I'm no society doctor messing with glands to keep fools happy.

8:32My job's taking care of serious trouble. And you want to watch Helen? Dave was grinning, but he was serious too. I told her, it cost her fifty thousand. Huh? And she said, okay, if you're hurried. Of course, there was only one thing to do, though I could have run fat Mrs. Van Styler's neck cheerfully. It wouldn't have happened if she'd used robots like everybody else, but she had to be different. Consequently, while Dave was back home, buttering with Helen, I was racking my brain to trick Archie Van Styler into getting the counter hormones, and giving the servant girl the same. Oh, I wasn't supposed to, but the poor kid was crazy about Archie. Dave might have written, I thought, but never a word did I get. It was three weeks later, instead of two, when I reported that Archie was cured and collected on a line. Well, that money in my pocket, I hired a personal rocket and was back in Messina in half an hour.

9:37I didn't waste time in reaching the house. As I stepped into the elbow, I heard a light-patter of feet, and an eager voice called out. Dave, dear? For a minute, I couldn't answer, and the voice came again, bleeding. Dave? I don't know what I expected, but I didn't expect Helen to meet me that way, stopping and staring at me. Obvious disappointment on her face, little hands fluttering up against her breast. She cried. Oh, I thought it was Dave. You hardly come home to eat now, but I've had supper waiting hours. She dropped her hands and managed to smile. Your fill, aren't you? Dave told me about you when, at first, I'm so glad to see you home, Phil. I'm glad to see you doing so well, Helen. Now, what does one say for light conversation with a robot?

10:41You said something about supper? Oh, yes. Yes, I guess Dave ate downtown again, so we might as well go in. It'll be nice having someone to talk to around the house, Phil. You don't mind if I call you Phil, do you? You know, you're sort of a godfather to me. We ate. I hadn't counted on such behavior, but apparently she considered eating as normal as walking. She didn't do much eating at that. Most of the time, she spent staring at the front door. Dave came in as we were finishing the frown, a yard wide on his face. Helen started to rise, but he ducked toward the stairs, throwing words over his shoulder. Hi, Phil. See you later. There was something radically wrong with him. For a moment, I thought his eyes were haunted, and as I turned to Helen, her eyes were filling with pears. She gulped, choked them back, and fell to viciously on her food.

11:46What's the matter with him, and with you? I asked. He sick of me. She pushed her, played away, and got up hastily. You'd better see him while I clean up, and there's nothing wrong with me, and it's not my fault anyway. She grabbed the dishes and ducked into the kitchen. I could have sworn she was crying. Maybe all thought is a series of conditioned reflexes, but she certainly had picked up a lot of conditioning while I was gone. I went up to see if Dave could make any sense out of the hodgepodge. He was squirting soda into a large glass of apple brandy, and I saw that the bottle was nearly empty. He asked. It seemed like a good idea. The roaring blast of an eye on rocket overhead was the only familiar thing left in the house.

12:47From the look around Dave's eyes, it wasn't the first bottle he'd emptied while I was gone, and there were more left. He dug out a new bottle for his own drink. A crisis none of my business day, but that stuff won't study your nerves any. What's gotten into you and Helen, you've been seeing ghosts? Helen was wrong. He hadn't been eating downtown, nor anywhere else. His muscles collapsed into a chain in a way that spoke of fatigue and nerves, but mostly of hunger. You noticed it, huh? Notice that the crew of your gender down my throat. Hmm. He swatted at an unexistent fly and slumped farther down and in the matic. I guess maybe I should have waited with Helen until you got back, but if that stereo cast hadn't changed, well, anyway did film.

13:49Those mushy books of yours finished the job. And thanks, that makes it all clear. You know, Phil, I've got a place up in the country, fruit ranch, my dad left it to me. And I think I'll look it over. And that's the way it went. But finally, by much liquor and more perspiration, I got some of the story out of him before I gave him an amital and put him to bed. Then I hunted up Helen and dug the rest of the story from her until it made sense. Apparently, as soon as I was gone, Dave had turned her on and made preliminary tests, which were entirely satisfactory. Helen had reacted beautifully, so well that he decided to leave her and go down to work as usual. Naturally, with her untried emotions, she was filled with curiosity and wanted him to stay. Then he had an inspiration.

14:49After showing her what her duties about the house would be, he set her down in front of the stereo visor, tuned in a travelogue and left her to occupy her time with that. The travelogue held her attention until it was finished, and the stations switched over to a current stereo with Larry Ainsley, the same cute a motor who had given us all the trouble with the twins. Incidentally, Ainsley looked something like Dave. Helen took to the cereal like a sealed water. This play acting was a perfect outlet for her newly excited emotions. When that particular episode finished, she found a love story on another station and added still more to her education. The afternoon programs were mostly news and music, but by then she found my books, and I do have rather adolescent taste and literature. Dave came home in the best of spirits. The front alcove was neatly swept. There was the order of food in the air that he'd missed around the house for weeks.

15:49He had visions of Helen as the super-efficient housekeeper. So it was a shock to him to feel two strong arms around his neck from behind, and hear a voice all aquifer, cool and as ears. Oh, Dave darling, I've missed you so, and I'm so thrilled that you're back. Helen's technique may have lacked polish, but it had enthusiasm as he found when he tried to stop her from kissing him. She had learned fast and furiously, also Helen was powered by an atom motor. Now Dave wasn't approved, but he remembered that she was only a robot after all. The fact that she felt acted and looked like a young goddess in his arms didn't mean much. With some effort he untangled her and dragged her off to supper where he made her eat with him due to verteur attention. After her evening work, he called her into the study. This is Matt Rogers from Los Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang.

16:52You know when people try on new food and suddenly it's like, wait, that's the reaction. A lot of people are having when they first try Cupid Mayo. It's the one with the red cap and the little baby on the bottle. You've probably seen it in the grocery store before. And if you've ever just walked past it, some people would say that's a huge mistake. Because this mayo is different. Most mayonnaise uses whole eggs. Cupid only uses egg yolks, which gives it this rich umami flavor. It's smoother, deeper, and almost buttery. Once people try it, they start putting it on everything. Examaches, fries, burgers, some fans even swear by dipping pizza crust in it. And once you notice it, you start seeing it everywhere. Chefs use it, restaurants use it. People who really care about flavor use it. Never try it, grab the bottle with the red cap next time you're out of the store. Put it on just about anything. Then you'll understand. Cupid, the original Japanese mayonnaise. This week at Vons and Albertsons, USDA Choice Tri-Tip Rose untrimmed are 599 per pound.

17:53Limit 4 rose with membership were applicable. And medium ripe hassovacados are 99 cents each with membership were applicable. Plus Kellogg cereals 8.8 to 16.1 ounces, selected varieties, or peppered farm goldfish, 5.9 to 8 ounces, are 1.99 each when you buy 3. Limit 3 offers with membership were applicable. Visit Vons or Albertsons.com for more deals and ways to save. Limit 3 time only promotion pricing may be lower than meal pricing. In gave her a thorough lecture on the folly of her ways. It must have been good for lasted 3 solid hours and covered her station in life, the idiocy of stereos and various other miscellaneous.

19:00When he had finished, Halin looked up with dewey eyes and said westfully. I know Dave, but I still love you. That's when Dave started drinking. It grew worse each day. If he stayed downtown, she was crying when he came home. If he returned on time, she fussed over him and threw herself at him. In his room with door locked he could hear her downstairs, placing up and down and muttering. And when he went down, she stared at him reproachfully until he had to go back up. I sent Halin out on a fake errand in the morning and got Dave up. With her gone, I made a decent breakfast and gave him a ton of quers and nerves. He was still listless and moody. Look here, Dave. I broke in on his brooding. Halin isn't human after all. Now why not cut off her power and change a few memory coils?

20:02Then we can convince her that she never was in love and couldn't get that way. Now you try it Phil. I have that idea, but she put up a way all it would wake Homer. She says it would be murder. And the hell it is that I can't help feeling the same way about it. Maybe she isn't human, but you wouldn't guess it when she puts on that martyr look and tells you to go ahead and kill her. We never put in substitutes for some of the secretions present in man during the love period. I don't know what we put in. Maybe the head of Rome's backfire or something. Anyway, she's made this idea so much a part of her thoughts that we'd have to put in a whole new set of coils. Well, why not? Hmm, go ahead. You're the surgeon of this family. I'm not used to fussing with emotions. No matter of fact, since she's been acting this way, I'm beginning to hate work on any robot. The business is going to blazes.

21:02You saw Halin coming up the walk and knocked out the back door for the monorail express. I didn't tend to put him back in bed, but let him go. Maybe he'd be better off at his shop than at home. Dave's gone. Halin did have that martyred look now. Yeah, yeah, I got him to eat and he's gone to work. I'm glad he ate. She slumped down in the chairs if she were worn out, though how a mech could be tired beat me. Phil? Yeah, what is it? Phil, do you think I'm bad for him? I mean, do you think he'd be happier if I weren't here? You go crazy if you keep acting this way around him. She went. Those little hands were twisting about pleatingly and I felt like an inhuman brute.

22:05But I'd started and I went ahead. Even if I cut out your power and changed your coils, Halin, he'd probably still be haunted by you. I know, but I can't help it. And I'd make him a good wife, really I would, Phil. I gulped. This was going a little too far. And give him strapping suns to boot, I suppose. A man wants flesh and blood, not rubber and metal. Don't, don't please, I can't think of myself that way. To me, I'm a woman and you know how perfectly I'm made to imitate a real woman in all ways. I couldn't give him suns, but in every other way I'd try so hard I know I'd make him a good wife. I gave up. Dave didn't come home that night, nor the next day.

23:06Halin was fussing and fuming, wanting me to call the hospitals and the police. But I knew nothing had happened to him. He always carried identification. Still when he didn't come home on the third day I began to worry. And when Halin started out for his shop I agreed to go with her. Dave was there with another man I didn't know. I parked Halin where he couldn't see her, but where she could hear, and went in as soon as the other fellow left. Dave looked a little better and seemed glad to see me. I feel just closing up, let's go eat. Halin couldn't hold back any longer but came truping in. Come on home Dave, I've got roast duck with spice stuffing and you know you love that. Scared. Said Dave, she shrank back and turned to go. All right stay, you might as well hear it too.

24:10I've sold the shop, the fellow you saw I've just now bought it and I'm going up to the old fruit ranch I told you about. Phil I can't stand the mechs anymore. You'll starve to death at that. I told him. No, there's a growing demand for old fashioned fruit raised out of doors. People are tired of this watercoaster stuff. Dad always made a living out of it. I'm leaving as soon as I can get home and pack. Halin clung to her idea. I'll pack Dave while you eat. I've got apple cobbler for dessert. The world was toppling under her feet but she still remembered how crazy he was for apple cobbler. Halin was a good cook. In fact, she was a genius with all the good points of a woman and Mac combined. Dave ate well enough after he got started. By the time supper was over he thought out enough to admit the like the duck and the cobbler and the thanker for packing.

25:18In fact, he even let her kiss him goodbye. Though he firmly refused to let her go to the rocket field within. Halin was trying to be brave when I got back and we carried on assembling conversation about Mrs. Van Styler's servants for a while. But the talk began to lol and she sat staring out of the window at nothing most of the time. Even the stereo comedy lacked interest for her. I was glad enough to have her go off to her room. She could cut her power down to simulate sleep when she chose. As the days slipped by I began to realize why she couldn't believe herself a robot. I got to thinking of her as a girl and companion myself. Except for odd intervals when she went off by herself to brood or when she kept going to the telescope for a letter that never came. She was as good a companion as a man could ask. I took Halin on a shopping trip to Hudson when she giggled and purred over the wisps of silk and glass sheen that were the fashion. Tried on endless hats and conducted herself as any normal girl might.

26:21We went trout fishing for a day where she proved to be as good a sport and is sensibly silent as a man. I thoroughly enjoyed myself and thought she was for getting Dave. That was before I came home unexpectedly and found her doubled up on the couch, rushing her legs up and down and crying to the high heavens. It was then I called Dave. They seemed to have trouble in reaching him and Halin came over beside me while I waited. She was tense and fidgety as an old maid trying to propose but finally they located Dave. What's up Phil? He asked as his face came on the view plate. I was just getting my things together too and I broke him off. Things can't go on the way they are Dave. I've made up my mind. I'm yanking Halin's coils tonight. They won't be worse than what she's going through now. Halin reached up and touched my shoulder.

27:24Maybe that's best Phil, I don't blame you. Dave's voice cut in. Phil, you don't know what you're doing. Of course I do. It'll be all over by the time you can get here. As you heard, she's agreeing. There was a black cloud sweeping over Dave's face. I won't have it Phil. She's half mine and I forbid it. Of all the... Go ahead, call me anything you want. I've changed my mind. I was packing to come home when you called. Halin jerked around me her eyes glued to the panel. Dave, do you... are you? I'm just waking up to what a fool I've been, Halin. Phil, I'll be home in a couple hours so if there's anything...

28:27he didn't have to chase me out. But I heard Halin cueing something about loving to be a rancher's wife before I could shut the door. Well, I wasn't as surprised as they thought. I think I knew when I called Dave what would happen. No man acts the way Dave had been acting because he hates a girl. Only because he thinks he does and thinks wrong. No woman ever made a lovely or bright or a sweeter wife. Halin never lost her flair for cooking and making a home. With her gone, the old house seemed empty and I began to drop out of the ranch once or twice a week. Well, I suppose they had trouble at times but I never saw it. And I know the neighbors never suspected they were anything but normal, man and wife. Dave grew older and Halin didn't, of course. But between us we put lines in her face and grayed her hair without letting Dave know that she wasn't growing old with him.

29:30He'd forgotten that she wasn't human, I guess. I practically forgot myself. It wasn't until the letter came from Halin this morning that I woke up to reality. There and her beautiful script, just a trifle shaking in places was the inevitable that neither Dave nor I had seen. Dear Phil, as you know, Dave has had heart trouble for several years now. We expected him to live on just the same but it seems that wasn't to be. He died in my arms just before sunrise. He sent you his greetings and farewell. I've one last favor to ask of you Phil. There's only one thing for me to do when this is finished. Acid will burn out metal as well as flesh and I'll be dead with Dave. Please see that we are buried together and that the morticians do not find my secret. Dave wanted it that way too.

30:30Poor dear Phil, I know you love Dave as a brother and how you felt about me. Please don't grieve too much for us, for we have had a happy life together and both feel that we should cross this last bridge side by side with love and thanks from Halin. It had to come sooner or later I suppose and the first shock is worn off now. I'll be leaving in a few minutes to carry out Halin's last instructions. Dave was a lucky man and the best friend I ever had and Halin, well as I said, I'm an old man now and can view things more singly. I should have married and raised a family I suppose but there was only one Helen O'Loy.

31:35You've heard the story Halin O'Loy by Lester Del Rey written in 1938. One of its recent appearances was an 18 greatest science fiction stories edited by Lawrence Jennifer. This is Michael Hanson speaking, technical production for Mindwebs by Leslie Olsenhoff. Mindwebs is a production of WHA Radio Madison, a service of University of Wisconsin Extension.

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