Hi,

I had to read a couple of times to make sense - I am still far away from such a complexity of language. Help me out as I am just trying to recreate what went in there in simple terms.

Colonel Arlong went into the lab where the metallic sentinel was hooked up to the measuring equipment. Jenifer was apparently running the tests on this metal sentinel. She gets sexually attracted to Colonel Arlong because he looks like a cowboy, and he is a man rather than sexual toys she's compelled to use for self-satisfaction. Ok so far?

Then, despite the fact, that the metal sentinel was partially dismantled, he or it was still able to maintain communication. Specifically, he requested to call him Karl and had human memories of WWII via the collective unconscious.

Then Karl exchanges mutual insults with Colonel Arlong and Jennifer takes the cigar bud and smokes it because it makes her feel like "real woman" I guess.

After that, I got completely confused. Jennifer is declaring that she's was the book reviewer for Perihelion Science Fiction. Who is Sam Bellotto Jr.? And what does it have to do with colonel Arlong and metallic sentinel?

Also, how can humanity leak into circuitry? Maybe you mean leak through circuitry?