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{{script|Complicatio}}: My division’s consigned, by unfunny fate
{{script|Complicatio}}: My division’s damned, by unfunny fate
To live unloved upon the ledger. We are but cost.
To live unloved upon the ledger. We are but cost.
’tis the rust and stain and curse of clammy machinery
’Tis the rust and stain and curse of clammy gears
To require ruinous peopling. We’ve cut our cloth as best can do
That require a ruinous peopling. We’ve cut our cloth as best can do
But these needed myriad technicians, though housed in meagre lairs
But these myriad needed grunts, though housed in meagre lairs
And kept safe and well away from clientry, are yet a weight.
And kept safe and well away from clientry, are yet a weight.
Each speaks in fractured runes of jargoned tongues
Each speaks the fractious tones of jargoned tongue
In dialects native to their scattered silos.
Such patter’s steep’d, til cup is cold, in leaves of dismal science.
The patter is, til cup is cold, steep’d in leaves of arcane science.  
Each a different dismal one. Their language smothers.  
We understand them not. Nor they each other.
We understand them not. Nor they each other.
Yet, this is our strife: this is the bewild’ring scape  
Yet, this is our strife: this is the bewild’ring scape  
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{{script|Queen}}: It is a pretty speech so far. But has it any meat?
{{script|Queen}}: It is a pretty speech so far. But has it any meat?
{{script|Complicatio}}: I — we — they — are and am obliged.
{{script|Complicatio}}: I — we — they — are and am obliged.
Those eager souls whose allied cadences power our jalopy
They whose allied cadence powers our truck —
{{Script|Queen}}: The dismal ones?
{{Script|Complicatio}}:  Aye them, with all their rancour —
By their inevitable heft, they play as weighty anchors.
By their inevitable heft, they play as weighty anchors.
{{Script|Nuncle}}: “Weighty anchors”? None call the Reverend Spooner!
{{Script|Nuncle}}: “Weighty anchors”? None call the Reverend Spooner!
{{script|Complicatio}}: Eager but, yegads, inconstant. Oafish! Fickle! Slow!  
{{Script|Queen}}:  There are ''eighty'' of these dismal scientists?
{{script|Complicatio}}: Nay, more! Eager but, yegads, inconstant. Oafish! Fickle! Slow!  
I wouldst speed their outputs up, only worser comes with sooner.
I wouldst speed their outputs up, only worser comes with sooner.
And so, my liege, my battle plan: set these [[Morlocks]] free.
And so, my liege, my battle plan: set these [[Morlocks]] free.
{{Script|Queen}}: To do what?
{{Script|Queen}}: To do what?
Should we set crankshafts free from work-to-rule
{{Script|Complicatio}}: Should we set the crankshafts free from work-to-rule
To run through night and day without cease
To run through night and day without cease
And upon the sabbath.
Even upon the Sabbath.
{{Script|Queen}}: Crankshafts doth pedal not themselves, Complicatio.
{{Script|Queen}}: Crankshafts doth pedal not themselves, Complicatio.
Know you who can work without food or rest?
Who can turn the wheel without fault or food or rest?
{{Script|Complicatio}}: Aye: In a call centre near by Bucharest.  
{{Script|Complicatio}}: You can hire them by the score in Bucharest.  


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