 He reserves the closest thing he can manage to human feeling for "Fate", the super-computer which both surveys security and maintains the bureaucracy of his government, loving and worshiping the machine as a goddess; in one scene, it is strongly implied that he masturbates in its presence.He is not without human qualities, however.His last few moments in the novel reveal him to be a timid, socially inept man who is eager to somehow connect with his people.