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announced that he was planning on removing 35 years, and
in this way, instantly aging the 25-year-old Fred to 60.
Inside the apparatus, tiny flashes of lightning began to
glow, and the aging process began. If not for the fact that it
was on live TV, it would have been attributed to the work of
a special effects editor. A gray streak suddenly appeared оn
his assistant’s head, and then his hair fell out in a wide
swath, making a bald spot, and became strewn all over his
shoulders. In the meantime, his expanding belly inflated his
white lab coat until several of the buttons shot out at the
studio audience. Bags under his eyes became really deep,
and his skin became wrinkled, as though from rapidly
increased gravity. His assistant’s face became discolored
and lost its pallor, and his physique became bag-like. In just
a few seconds his body experienced 35 years of living and
lost its youthfulness.
“So, my dear audience, half the life of our friend has
migrated into this tiny little machine, which I am holding
in my hands,” Coifman continued. “That is, the
chronomatizer has taken away 35-years of his biotime. And
this charge can be returned to that very same victimized
body, which I personally intend to do. Though, in fact, it
can be injected into any other human organism! For
example, into mine – and then I would become physically
younger than my assistant. What do you think of that
prospect, my friend?”