I am disconnecting Hadaly! replied Edison—isolating her, in a word, since she longer belongs to anyone but you. In the future she will respond only to the rings and the necklace. On the various points of her operation, the Manuscript will supply you with the most precise and explicit details. Very soon you will come to understand how the sixty basic hours engraved within her can be enriched with infinite complexities. It’s like the game of chess; or rather, it’s altogether limitless, like a woman.

-Tomorrow’s Eve, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam