nonsentient

Updated: June 3, 2025

Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. He implores the expanse, the waves, the seaweed, the reef; they are deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the infinite. Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, the undefined curling of those wild waters. In him horror and fatigue. Beneath him the depths. Not a point of support.

Victor Hugo - Les Misérables

It does not change or retouch the film, but gives it to to-day as it is, relentlessly, without pity and without satisfaction. Bonbright saw the future as a benignant soul; he did not realize it is a nonsentient machine. Bonbright stopped in the library door, for he saw there not only his father, whom he had expected to see, but his mother also. He had not foreseen this.

Clarence Budington Kelland - Youth Challenges