The Living

This is true to a certain extent: the correctees can’t be distracted from first layer – we block all the signals going in. But second layer is active. We record all the signals coming out in second layer. We calculate their potential threat coefficient, PTC, in this specific situation and determine the nature of their reaction to a PIA.

Lot and I always tell the correctees that these visits are part of their nature therapy. Studying nature, contact with living creatures unlike ourselves is an ancient form of relaxation. An extremely effective method for persons with destructively criminal incodes: it helps them develop empathy for the weak. Promotes kind thoughts. Creates a good constructive background… That’s what we always say.

But it’s all lies

Luxury is one of the Living’s greatest socio-sacraments. A garden of delights in which the fantasies of every participant in the act let out shoots and blossom. They get woven together these fantasies, they grow into each other, become one…

I never see his face. Not just in luxury – never at all. In first layer he has to wear the mask the whole time, but that doesn’t really matter, we hardly ever meet in first layer. What matters is that he doesn’t have a face in any layer

I paint his dull jungle in the brightest shades of ‘I’m feeling lucky’

If you don’t want your first pause to be your last, if you want to stay with the Living, then your anger is unacceptable. The Living is full of love

The Pause: it’s great. At that moment I believed

Strictly functional,’ that’s what he had said to the decorator, ‘Stylish minimalism.’ He did it all up in socio tones: walls à la inviz and safety furniture in the colours ‘available’ and ‘busy’.

Messages like that start coming at fifty.

She could have lived for another twenty-six years until a Compulsory Pause. This measure applies to those who are over sixty and do not want to comply with the suggestions voluntarily

would have been another eleven years before she would start receiving messages from the local Centre for Population Control with the gentle suggestion that she visit the Pause Zone. Messages like that start coming at forty-five