Babel in Seattle (1998)
"The Space Needle was visible through the lobby's massive windows, its illuminated form like a transmission tower against the night sky. David had been having visions of it for weeks now, dreams where the structure housed massive servers and AI cores, processing data collected from every human in the city.
The discordant industrial rhythm of Marilyn Manson's "New Model No. 15" played distantly from someone's car stereo in the hotel parking garage, the mechanical beats and electronic distortion echoing through the concrete structure and seeping into the lobby. The song's themes about manufactured beings and control systems seemed eerily appropriate as David stood watching the couples moving through the lobby like programmed automatons, their social smiles and greetings indistinguishable from algorithms following predetermined scripts.
Sometimes the Space Needle spoke to him in the voice of his father, a Southern Baptist preacher who'd used the belt as freely as Bible verses."
-Babel in Seattle (1998)
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