温迪·赖特（Wendy Wright）似乎没有像其他人一样出生于血液和内部器官。为了靠近她，他感到自己是一个蹲下的，油腻的，出汗，没有受过教育的努尔特，肚子嘎嘎作响，呼吸喘不过气。在她附近，他意识到使他活着的身体机制。在他内部的机械，管道和阀门以及燃气压缩机和风扇带不得不弄清楚一项失败的任务，最终注定要失败。看到她的脸，他发现自己的面具由一个花哨的面具组成。注意到她的身体使他感觉像是一个低级的打水玩具。
(It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he felt himself to be a squat, oily, sweating, uneducated nurt whose stomach rattled and whose breath wheezed. Near her he became aware of the physical mechanisms which kept him alive; within him machinery, pipes and valves and gas-compressors and fan belts had to chug away at a losing task, a labor ultimately doomed. Seeing her face, he discovered that his own consisted of a garish mask; noticing her body made him feel like a low-class wind-up toy.)