Each  papier  is given a special slot on a  machine  that grinds between the walls. When it emerges, higher up, it may be a bit confused about why it is there, where it came from, and what's going to happen next. It is the job of the next  machine  to keep things in gear, get the  message  out... the  papier  has no will, and less concentration. What happens if a  travailleur  plucks the  message  off the  ligne , and instead of passing it on to the next channel, stuffs it in her pocket (easy to do, the supervisor is out for lunch). Will the  message , when it wakes under her  yeux , still act as confused, and perhaps pass that confusion on to the thieving reader, who then will make the mistake of thinking that this purloined  message  was meant for her, and make efforts to deliver it back to the person who sent it?     L'ironie de la chose était Spiralum, elle-même, était une inventrice en électronique, qui rêvait de développer un instrument capable de transmettre des images mouvantes par téléphonie.