[A breakthrough. Dare he be hopeful? Well even if he is, his expression ain't changing.]

That is incontrovertible. Love is not something tangible or material, and therefore, it is but an artifact of human creation.

[Delivered in perfect, unyielding deadpan.]

The human mind is full of fabrications so convoluted it would keep you from distinguishing farce from fact. That is why you are all inferior beings.