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In 'Some Applications of the Mimer', Gilberto uses a device that copies any object atom for atom, and he secretly uses it to duplicate his wife Emma. The copy is a full person with Emma's memories and her claim on his marriage, so a technical success becomes a domestic and moral impasse.
In 'The Versifier', a commissioned poet buys a machine that turns a stated topic, metre and tone into finished verse. He uses it first as a tool and then as a substitute, and by the end the machine is writing the story the reader holds.
Each fable grants a single impossible premise and then applies the ordinary logic of commerce, bureaucracy and self-interest to it, step by step. The horror or comedy never comes from the invention itself. It comes from how normally people behave around it, so the method exposes the everyday incentives the invention merely amplifies.
In 'Versamina', a chemist creates a substance that converts pain into pleasure. Its users and test animals then harm themselves, because pain is the signal that keeps a body alive rather than a defect to be removed. Remove the aversive signal and the behavior it protected collapses.
In 'Censorship in Bitinia', a state that cannot keep up with its censorship workload trains hens to do the job, and they perform as well as the human censors. In 'The Measure of Beauty', a device scores faces against one calibrated ideal. When evaluation can be handed to an animal or a meter without loss, it was never judgment, only conformity to a preset pattern.