I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system.

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

He's not rewarding us by talking to us. He's talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.

When a client is driven to the utmost extremity, it is warmth and food and ease from pain he wants. Peace and justice come afterward. Rain symbolizes mercy and sunlight charity, but rain and sunlight are better than mercy and charity. Otherwise they would degrade the things they symbolize.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.