- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
The narrator has provided the backstory of Salo, an alien from the planet Tralfamadore who has been stranded on Titan for 200,000 during a mission to deliver a message across the universe. Before leaving Tralfamadore, Salo was told that he must not open the message under any conditions, and thus he doesn’t know its contents. However, because he is a machine, this doesn’t bother him. He is designed to carry out tasks obediently, without using his own mind to evaluate whether they seem logical.
This quotation links Salo to the Martian soldiers, who are turned into machines through their antennae…