Talk is cheap #634 Jess: Wouldn't you like to step into a cool swimming pool on a day like today? Mike: No. Wouldn't you like to create a machine that would snuff out the sun on a day like today? Jess: No. I doubt it'd be much fun without the sun. Mike: You're forgetting the domed cities. Jess: Domed cities? Mike: The domed cities we'd live in after we've destroyed the sun. Jess: I expect living a domed city would be very much like sitting on this overcrowded sweaty bus. Mike: No, we'd have huge generators controlling the environment and after a while the domes would grow and sustain their own eco system. Jess: Hmmm Mike: We'd have travel tubes throwing us from one location to the next and everyone would wear flowing gossamer. Jess: You'd be wearing flowing gossamer? Mike: No. I'd have a nifty black outfit with a gray stripe across the front. Jess: You're too old to be a Sandman. Mike: In my dome you don't run because you're over 21 you run because you're IQ is too low. Jess: I should have guessed. Mike: The central computer would still offer all the crap we have now, but if you watch too much reality TV, read one too many tabloid or self-help book then the little crystal in your palm turns black and I and my fellow sandmen hunt you down. Jess: You've put a lot of thought into this. Mike: Well, I hate the sun. Jess: And you think people would buy into this? Mike: They would when I told them the clincher. Jess: Which is? Mike: Sex with Jenny Agutter. Jess: That just might work. Mike is writing to the Old Boy soundtrack