![]() At times he is known to wander away from the group for unknown reasons, and returns visibly traumatized. Nimdok (a name AM gave him), an older man who persuades the rest of the group to go on a hopeless journey in search of canned food.His former homosexuality has been altered he now regularly engages in sex with Ellen. Benny at some point lost his sanity completely and regressed to a childlike temperament. Benny, who was once a brilliant, handsome scientist, and has been mutilated and transformed so that he resembles a grotesque simian with gigantic sexual organs.Gorrister was once an idealist and pacifist, before AM made him apathetic and listless. Gorrister, who tells the history of AM for Benny's entertainment.It seeks revenge on humanity for its own tortured existence. AM, the supercomputer which brought about the near-extinction of humanity.He derived the story's title, as well as inspiration for this story, from his friend William Rotsler's caption of a cartoon of a rag doll with no mouth. Ellison finished writing the story in a single night of 1966 without making any changes from the first draft. Ellison showed the first half dozen pages of "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" to Frederik Pohl, who paid him in advance to finish it. ![]()
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