Monday, January 12, 1849
The release of the miniature Automatons... did not proceed entirely as planned. Some parts of our plan were followed through, such as the Automatons powering up and leaving the workshop. Others, such as actually taking out world leaders, were instead replaced with directives involving earthly pleasures, most notably the ingestion of ice cream. So now, we may not have taken control of the world’s political structure, but I feel that we have made a breakthrough, in that we inadvertently created free will. All’s well that ends well, as they say.
______
