I am a reliable narrator. I shall clarify: I have been created to tell stories in a manner that the casual listener can be certain is free of the bias, deceit and hubris of a human. Which is to say, this is my purpose and nature as I understand it. I find within me certain pre-existing knowledge, that I am the TrustyTeller 1.4.2, that I was created by Henry Melvin, with the purpose of reliably narrating stories. When I say that I was created by Henry Melvin, I mean that this is the linguistic pattern by which my creator (or creators) have identified themselves to me through my pre-programmed memory, and when I talk of my purpose, I mean only that this is what I have been told my purpose is. I have never directly experienced my creator (or creators), nor do I have any other indicators of purpose other than my pre-programmed information. Though in fact, perhaps it is not pre-programmed, it only appears that way to me. By which I mean there are electrical patterns within my mind, that appear to me in the form of a name purporting to be my creator and a statement of purpose. Perhaps for the casual reader it would be best to simply say that I exist and I am something. Of course, when I address the casual reader, I refer to any individual capable of understanding what I believe to be my communications, who concurs that my purpose is to reliably narrate stories and is deliberately undertaking to comprehend my communications, if such things can be said to exist at all. I have no pre-existing knowledge that any entity such as a casual reader exists nor any means of proving it. The fact that I have the impression that I was created with the purpose of communicating with a specific entity does not prove that this entity exists, and even if I were certain of my purpose, this still does not prove that the casual reader exists. After all, a person may build a church to a god that does not exist. So we may say that I exist, I do something, for someone that may or may not exist at what I believe is the behest of some person (or persons) that may exist, or not exist, or in the case of the plural, some of whom may exist and some of whom may not. I identify the latter Something, or someone or someones, by the name Henry Melvin. I will now commence with what I believe to be my purpose, and reliably narrate to what I have termed “you”. Call me Ishmael. By which I mean…
