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She searched her memory banks but couldn't find anything that would have upset Bob about robots. In fact Bob had worked side by side with manbots at his first job, on an assembly line in Detroit, making jet sleds.

It furthermore confirms, as James A. Davies has shown, that when drawn to contemporaries, Forster did not preimpose ideas upon his material as he did with those of the past, but presented 'honest revelation' bordering on explicitness.

[…] we have no hesitancy in believing that the unpennied sweep frequently became a pennied sweep after the gentle Elia had passed by.