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The mood organ allows people to dial and experience specific emotional states on demand. By selecting numbers corresponding to preset moods, users can invoke feelings ranging from deep despair to serene bliss or even purposeful motivation.
Mood Organ Quotes in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? quotes below are all either spoken by Mood Organ or refer to Mood Organ. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1
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“I can’t dial a setting that stimulates my cerebral cortex into wanting to dial! If I don’t want to dial, I don’t want to dial that most of all, because then I will want to dial, and wanting to dial is right now the most alien drive I can imagine; I just want to sit here on the bed and stare at the floor.” Her voice had become sharp with overtones of bleakness as her soul congealed and she ceased to move, as the instinctive, omnipresent film of great weight, of an almost absolute inertia, settled over her.
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Mood Organ Term Timeline in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The timeline below shows where the term Mood Organ appears in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
In the year 2021, Rick Deckard wakes up to the sound of his Penfield mood organ , which he adjusts to a setting that makes him ready for the day. He...
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Chapter 22
Back at their apartment, Iran is in a despondent mood. She contemplates using the mood organ to lift her spirits. When Rick arrives, she immediately realizes that something important about him...
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