RAGE*

My job is pretty awful.

Most of the time I'm sitting behind a desk, doing a variety of epically uninteresting tasks, and wondering whether - all things considered - I should have taken up Courtney Cox's offer of going to live in her exclusive Swiss skiing lodge and being paid a hefty, monthly salary for being her personal 'sex on tap'. But every so often my job comes through, and all doubts are forgotten; the time I managed to successfully embezzle close to £10,000 from the Finance Department, for example, or the photocopying of Degree Certificates for sale by mail order which pays for the upkeep of my small estate in the Highlands.

But, most of all, the day I got to smash up loads of expensive electrical equipment.


My colleague, Penco, who will be assisting me in this endeavour

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An overhead projector - worth several hundred pounds of anyone's money - kicks off, by becoming a lump of debris worth not a bean.

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Microfiche reader? You looking at me? Then who are you looking at? I'm the only one here.


One step closer and this rather fine Espon printer gets it - I mean it, copper.

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Penco sees to two microfiche readers, a printer and an overhead projector without the smallest flicker of remorse from his cold, dead eyes.


What's in my hand? A telex machine - dead technology. It soon will be, anyway.

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I see to it that an Apricot computer, a PC server and another microfiche reader won't be causing any more trouble in this town.

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Penco calmly tries various hurling techniques on the two remaining microfiche readers found cowering pitifully in a back room. The man is bad to the bone.


Chris - a passing, young, slip of an electrician - is briefly sucked into our dark world.


No! But - surely - it can't be the fearful "double computer chucking" ritual that is spoken of in books of old? Believe.


The Terminator? George Orwell? E M Forster? Humans dominated, hounded and enslaved by runaway technology? Not in our manor, matey-boy.

My, but did we have a good day.


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R Millington 07/08/97