It's his imagination after being rejected. He wants to make himself feel better after she said something cruel. So he creates a fiction about something controlling her, so he can still believe the good in the past was real but the cruel ending was because the evil robots controlled her. The "paper columnist" is just being whimsical I believe.
It's his imagination after being rejected. He wants to make himself feel better after she said something cruel. So he creates a fiction about something controlling her, so he can still believe the good in the past was real but the cruel ending was because the evil robots controlled her. The "paper columnist" is just being whimsical I believe.