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Ada Byron Lovelace, a fiery young inventor, and her mentor and soul mate, Charles Babbage, have been working on the invention of an “analytical engine” that can produce both mathematical equations and music. The two are in love with each other, but Charles vowed to not marry again after his first wife died and Ada has since married Lord William Lovelace. At the end of Act 1, the two share an intimate moment when preparing to publish a paper about their analytical machine. In this scene, which
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CHARLES: I just have a small preface that I wish to see attached to the paper. A short note really. A small introduction to the piece, then your translation, then your marvelous notes.
ADA: What sort of preface?
CHARLES: Just - context. Contextualize the engine, its development, its varied history.
ADA: Has it had a varied history?
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ADA: Oh my mind you’ll employ when it serves you, unless the woman attached to it objects to a ludicrous thing, then? Then you dismiss her as a turncoat fool. Well if you think I would be so easy manipulated you know me not.
CHARLES: And yet you’ve done everything I’ve asked for so far.
ADA: Then it’s a good thing you’re too scared to ask for the thing you actually want.
Gunderson, Lauren, Ada and the Machine, Dramatist Play Services, 2018, pp. 46-59.
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