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is part of your-self, and you still claim to mean us no harm?"
"I mean you no harm. You are to become contributors to a great experiment."
"What kind of 'experiment'?"
"The experiment that is I. Me. Myself. I am the Inte-grator. I am you and you are me. All will become
me and I will become all."
The philosophy is not new, Evan told himself. That was a cry common to many would-be tyrants and
dictators stretching far back into the depths of human history. But he doubted it had ever been previously
stated on a purely biological level. His demise was to be truly unique: he was going to be murdered by a
megalomaniacal mela-noma.
"All contribute. I especially value intelligence. You and your companions are intelligent. They come from
an Associative, but I am the greatest Associative that has ever been or ever will be. I am the only true
Associative."
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"You are not an Associative because you are not orga-nized." Evan was certain he recognized the voice
of library, bitter and accusatory-and disturbingly weak.
"Organization follows form. I am the Integrator and my purpose is to link together as many lifeforms as
pos-sible, until I have become all the world and all the world has become me! One single immense
organism, the logical end of all Associatives."
Though weakened and helpless, library would not con-cede. "You are not organized. There is no design
to your growth, no rhythm to your expansion. It is as chaotic as your intentions. You are not an
Associative. You are not integrated. You are an anarchy."
"Organization requires only the proper integration of a sufficient diversity of lifeforms. That has not yet
been achieved."
"You don't understand yourself. You can continue to grow in mass but not in mind. Organization does
not occur on its own behalf."
"You are only a fragment," the Integrator replied contemptuously. "What can you know of destiny?"
Superficial as well as insane,Evan mused.
"You will see. There are several libraries within the Associative, each contributing its own store of
knowledge to the greater whole that is I, Us, Me. See."
Quiet reigned while the Integrator put library in touch with others of his kind who had preceded him to
oblivion. "You have their knowledge, their talents, yes. You have information without the ability to apply
it, though, because you have stripped them of their individuality. They can no longer discuss, argue, and
compare. They can only comply. You have destroyed that which is most useful about them."
"There can be no individuality within a true Associa-tive. You will not miss yours, I assure you. Instead
you will find far greater fulfillment as a library as part of a proper whole. It is how it was meant to be.
Each con-tributes a specialization to the whole. Multiplicity is ver-satility."
"Not without individuality," library argued. "Without individuality there can be no innovation, and without
innovation there can be no development. You can grow but you cannot mature. You can repeat but you
cannot create. You will not be capable of an original thought."
"Ah, but that is where you are most wrong, for am I not the most original thought of all? Where but in me
have you ever seen such originality before?"
"Only in nightmares," Evan murmured.
"You are mentally and physically insane," library added, "though I don't expect you to recognize that.
Individuals cannot forcibly be integrated."
"Wrong, wrong, you are so wrong! It can be done. It has been done. I have done it. Iam it." Around
Evan the surface of the Integrator flared with an intense green light, an outpouring of uncontrolled
emotion,a visual shout.
"You're right," Evan said quietly. "It can be done." He could sense the shock among his companions. "It
can be done, and you are not proof of it-I am. Look closely at me. I am warrior, library, physician and
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scout, gatherer and scanner, all in one. You cannot integrate two Inte-grators."
"Yes, that's so," said Azure, quickly divining Evan's intent. "Let him go."
"No. I am not so easily tricked. Within myself are many purely organic lifeforms. Some contribute while
others have proved useless, but I would not deny to any the fulfillment that comes from being wholly
integrated. I will learn from this one as I did not have the chance to learn from the other."
"You won't learn a damn thing from me," Evan assured it. "I'm not a sun-eater. When this goo covers my
head I'll die."
"It will not matter. I will learn from your parts, as I have learned from and made use of similar soft
bodies." By way of illustration a dozen brown limbs emerged from the slick surface nearby and waved at
him. They had been removed from a dozen unfortunate deceased owners. Evan was nearly sick.
"When you are fully integrated you will be more coop-erative," the Integrator assured him blithely.
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