After about 4 tries we succeeded in building a machine that could say "Larry," only it could say it about 500 times in a row, simultaneously. When I awoke, he smiled, and I looked up at him and he said, "I may have given you too much of the medicine that may have saved your life. I'm afraid you have a terminal disease called life. Forgive my manners if I brush aside your fears of dying. I have something that I want to do as soon as I leave here."