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. She has thousands
of other things to do, all more interesting-"
"Far more interesting!" that faceless voice interrupted. "Minnie, he
doesn't like virgins. I let him know that I am one. Confirm it, Sis; I want to
rub his nose in it."
'Teena, don't tease him."
"Why not? It's fun to tease men; they wiggle so when you poke them. Though
I can't see what Hazel sees in this one. He's a sad sack."
'Teena! Colonel, did Athene tell you that she is a computer?"
"Eh? Say that again."
"Athene is a computer. She is the supervising computer of this planet;
other computers here are just machines, not sentient. Athene runs everything.
Just as Mycroft Holmes once ran everything on Luna-I know that Hazel told you
about him." Minerva smiled gently. "So that's how Teena can claim to be a
virgin. Technically she is one, in the sense that a computer can have no
experience in carnal copulation-"
"But I know all about it!"
"Yes, Sis. -with a male human. On the other hand, when she transfers to a
meat-and-bone body and becomes human, in another technical sense she will no
longer be virgin because her hymen will have been atrophied in vitro and any
vestigial tissue trimmed away before her animal body is kindled. That's how it
was done with me."
"And you were out of your mind, Minnie, to let Ishtar sell you that; I'm
not going to do it that way
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