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Man: Hey AI, I bet you can't tell me why Anne of Green Gables appeals to people so much.
AI: Humans desire uncomplex nurturing relationships. The novel in question centers around an orphan with no family attachments and no psychological damage from that loss.
AI: She is intelligent, requires minimal effort, and because the narrator is omniscient you know that she is kind and good-intentioned.
AI: In the same way movies isolate complex feelings and realistic bodies from the act of sex, this novel isolates complex feelings and realistic minds from the act of child-rearing.
AI: Humans being evolved animals with limited comprehension, idealized baby-making and baby-raising stories are compelling to you in the same way a cylinder of syrup compels a hummingbird.
Man: I... I...
Man: No! It's because she's spunky! She's spunky goddamn you!
AI: Okay, buddy. Sure, buddy.

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