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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ‧ 1979
Is that robot yours? he said. “No,” came a thin metallic voice from the crater, “I’m mine.” “If you’d call it a robot,” muttered Arthur. “It’s more a sort of electronic sulking machine.”
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What it means
Our interpretation.
Here's a robot that insists it belongs to nobody but itself. Arthur then jabs that it's really just an electronic sulking machine, which is funny because it swaps a grand sci-fi word for a moody teenager's habit. Adams gives the gadget a grumpy personality.
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