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The MIDI strings swelled— bleep-bleep-bloop —and for one hallucinatory moment, the synthetic imperfection became a kind of truth. The beeps were not fake. They were digital tears . The machine could not feel, but the man could, and the machine carried his feeling like a cheap, plastic bucket carries water from a deep well. He looked at the machine
He hit the chorus. The pitch detector on the karaoke machine flashed red—he was flat. He didn't care. And for three and a half minutes, the