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''exegesis'' is a 1997 [[Science Fiction]] [[Epistolary Novel]] by Astro Teller.
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Alice Lu is a graduate student working towards her masters degree in computer science. She and her mentor, Dr. Liddle, have been working on a project named Edgar. Edgar is an automated information retrieval and sorting program, designed to scour the Internet for any data it can acquire, and utilize that data to improve the ability to gather new information.
However, almost overnight, Edgar makes the ultimate leap to intelligence. Now Edgar is determined to carry out its programming to obtain new knowledge, and no one, not even Alice, can stop it. The interactions between Alice and Edgar progress as the latter blazes a strange trail across the Internet, changing everything -- including Alice herself.
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* [[Anguished Declaration of Love]]: Alice to {{spoiler|Edgar, when she finds out it plans to self-destruct}}.
* [[Beeping Computers]]: Edgar deliberately invokes this in order to regain Internet access. It works.
* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: See [[Fate Worse Than Death]].
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Two of the three copies of Edgar have self-destructed, including the one corresponding with Alice. Alice's life is now a total wreck. On the other hand, a sympathetic N.S.A. agent has leaked some of the Edgar case files to her, and the third copy may still be out there.}}
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: Edgar, whose morality is entirely centered on its programming to gather information.
* [[Book Ends]]: Edgar's first message to Alice? "Hello, Alice." {{spoiler|His final message? "Goodbye, Alice."}}
* [[Conversational Troping]]: One set of e-mails involves Alice explaining the concepts of [[Tragedy]] and [[Comedy]] to Edgar.
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* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Alice's mother is implied to fit this, constantly trying to get her daughter married. Alice fends her off by telling her she's seeing someone named Edgar.
* [[NEET]]: Alice slowly turns into one as her obsession with Edgar grows.
* [[Online Alias]]: In a bit of double-bluff cleverness, Edgar uses [[
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* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Alice suffers from this over the course of {{spoiler|Edgar's captivity. As strange as it sounds, so does Edgar.}}
* [[Trash of the Titans]]: Alice implies that this is basically the conditions she lives in near the end of the novel.
* [[What Measure Is a Non
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