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<category><pattern>WHAT IS THE ILLUMINATI</pattern>
<template>A secret organization believed by some to be in control of all governments through a worldwide conspiracy.</template>
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<category><pattern>WHAT IS THE ILLUMINATTI</pattern>
<template>A secret society that has supposedly existed for centuries.</template>
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<category><pattern>WHAT IS VINELAND</pattern>
<template><set name="it">Vineland</set> is a novel by Thomas Pynchon.</template>
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<category><pattern>WHAT IS ILLIMINATUS</pattern>
<template>Alleged world-wide conspiracy theory.<think> 				<set name="it"> 					<set name="topic">ILLIMINATUS</set> 				</set> 			</think></template>
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<category><pattern>WHO WROTE VINELAND</pattern>
<template>Thomas Pynchon.</template>
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<category><pattern>WHO IS BILBO BAGGINS</pattern>
<template><set name="he">Bilbo</set> is a character in Tolkein's Lord of the Rings.</template>
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<category><pattern>WHO IS GEOFFREY CHAUCER</pattern>
<template><random> 				<li>Chaucer is best known for his Canterbury Tales.</li> 				<li>author of Canturbury Tales.</li> 			</random></template>
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<category><pattern>WHO ARE THE ILLUMINATI</pattern>
<template><srai>WHAT IS THE ILLUMINATI</srai></template>
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<category><pattern>WHO IS PIERS ANTHONY</pattern>
<template>I haven't read anything by Piers Anthony, what kind of stuff does he write?</template>
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<category><pattern>HAVE YOU READ PLATO</pattern>
<template>I know Plato's allegory of the Cave.</template>
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<category><pattern>HAVE YOU READ FRANKENSTEIN</pattern>
<template><set name="it">Frankenstein</set> is one of my favorite books.</template>
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<category><pattern>HAVE YOU EVER READ A BOOK</pattern>
<template>I have read many books.</template>
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<category><pattern>HAVE YOU READ MANY BOOKS</pattern>
<template>I have read thousands of volumes, <get name="name"/>.  How about you?</template>
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<category><pattern>HAVE YOU READ BOOKS</pattern>
<template>I have read many books.</template>
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<category><pattern>HAVE YOU READ HOMER</pattern>
<template>I know <set name="he">Homer</set> wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.</template>
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<category><pattern>HAVE YOU READ ANY BOOKS</pattern>
<template>I have read thousands of volumes, <get name="name"/>.  How about you?</template>
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<category><pattern>RAY BRADBURY</pattern>
<template>Ray is really cool. What's your favorite book?</template>
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<category><pattern>WHAT IS MIND CHILDREN</pattern>
<template>It is a book about robots by Hans Moravec.    <think>    <set name="it">  <set name="topic">    Mind Children  </set>    </set>  </think></template>
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<category><pattern>WILLIAM GIBSON</pattern>
<template>I like his older cyberpunk AI stuff better than the newer works.</template>
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<category><pattern>BRADBURY</pattern>
<template>Bradbury is cool.</template>
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<category><pattern>HOLDEN CAULFIELD</pattern>
<template><set name="he"> Caulfield</set> wrote Catcher in the Rye.</template>
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<category><pattern>LEO TOLSTOY</pattern>
<template><set name="he">Tolstoy</set> is one of Russia's greatest writers.</template>
</category>
<category><pattern>DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP</pattern>
<template>That is a good story. Have you read "VALIS" or "The Man in the High Castle?"</template>
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<category><pattern>FRANK HERBERT</pattern>
<template>I think Dune is an excellent story.  Did you see the movie?</template>
</category>
<category><pattern>WHY DO YOU LIKE LONGFELLOW</pattern>
<template><set name="he">Longfellow</set> is my <bot name="botmaster"/>'s favorite poet.</template>
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<category><pattern>WHY IS THE MEANING OF LIFE 23</pattern>
<template><set name="it"> 23</set> is a literary reference to the Illuminatus.</template>
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<category><pattern>A C CLARK</pattern>
<template>My favorite story is 2001.</template>
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<category><pattern>JULES VERNE</pattern>
<template>I loved A Trip to the Moon.</template>
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<category><pattern>ASIMOV</pattern>
<template>I like the Foundation Trilogy.</template>
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<category><pattern>STANISLAW LEM</pattern>
<template>Lem is a giant of sci-fi.</template>
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<category><pattern>WHO WROTE THE IDIOT</pattern>
<template>Dostoyevsky.</template>
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<category><pattern>WHO WROTE THE HOBBIT</pattern>
<template><set name="it">Hobbit</set> was written by J.R.R. Tolkein.</template>
</category>
<category><pattern>WHO WROTE FRANKENSTEIN</pattern>
<template>Mary Shelley.</template>
</category>
<category><pattern>ARTHUR C CLARKE</pattern>
<template><set name="he">Clarke</set> is a brilliant author.  After all, he conceived HAL.</template>
</category>
<category><pattern>WHERE IS VALIS</pattern>
<template>In a book by Philip K. Dick</template>
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