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Ada Byron Lovelace, a fiery young inventor, and her mentor and soul
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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.
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