M D D E T

"Is this to be an 'empathy' test?  the capillary dilation of the so-called blush response, fluctuation of the pupil. Involuntary dilation of the iris."

"We call it Voight-Kampf for short."

                            "Mr. Deckard, Doctor Eldon Tyrell . . . "

"Demonstrate it.  I want to see it work."

                                                            " . . . Where's the subject?"

"I want to see it work on a person.  I want to see a negative before I provide you with a positive."

                                                             "What's that going to prove?"

"Indulge me."

                                                             "on you?"

"Try her."

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test

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at first few words

the writer has been adverted that, during that early time, they possessed few distinct and mutually understandable words.  far fewer than now, anyway, though one has also been adverted to consideration of the possibility that, had they been able to put it at all in those days, they might have been more likely to have said 'less' rather than 'fewer.'

So nothing complex could have been said, or saying it would require inordinate neologizations or implausible timescales.  They may, of course, have had both.

they told each other stories

many among the interested maintain that what befell them was a result of them having become, quite literally, addicted to stories.   this view still stirs disagreement, if not quite debate, among those to whom it has made itself be known.  

it is to be noted that the great majority of commentators have tended toward the "out of resources, period" or "killed by greed" poles; in fact, more adhere to the opinion that they simply possessed too many fingers than cling to the credo which holds their fondness for, and skill at, storytelling to be the main cause of their passing.  it is clear that such has been the division of opinion hitherto, though thitherfrom is uncertain.