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and lightbulbs running down her fifi fingers, lighting in sequence, you get me, as if the is paw paw pouring down her palms." On the cabin's movie screen a stewardess was demonstrating the various safety procedures. In a corner of the screen an inset male figure translated her into sign language. This was progress, Chamcha recognized. Film instead of human beings, a small increase in sophistication (the signing) and a large increase in cost. High technology at the service, ostensibly, of safety; while in reality air travel got daily more dangerous, the world's stock of aircraft was ageing and nobody could afford to renew it. Bits fell off planes every day, or so it seemed, and collisions and near--misses were also on the up. So the film was a kind of lie, because by existing it said: _Observe the lengths we'll go to for your security. We'll even make you a movie about it_. Style instead of substance, the image
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