![]() ![]() "Very well," said Trurl and ordered it to make Night, which it made at once - small perhaps, but perfectly nocturnal. ![]() "Look, old boy," said the machine, "if I could do everything starting with n in every possible language, I'd be a Machine That Could Do Everything in the Whole Alphabet, since any item you care to mention undoubtedly starts with n in one foreign language or another. "Sodium starts with an s, and I work only in n." 'This last it could not do, and Trurl, considerably irritated, demanded an explanation. Still not completely sure of its ability, he had it produce, one after the other, nimbuses, noodles, nuclei, neutrons, naphtha, noses, nymphs, naiads, and natrium. The machine carried out his instructions to the letter. When it was ready, he tried it out, ordering it to make needles, then nankeens and negligees, which it did, then nail the lot to narghiles filled with nepenthe and numerous other narcotics. ![]() One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could create anything starting with n. ![]()
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