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physiological development, when the destructive symptoms
of his illness have yet to appear.
In time the State Reserve of Biological Time was created,
from which gravely ill patients, based on the diagnoses of
the commission, had the right to receive doses of time. On
the other hand, shortly thereafter, a mass of false medical
diagnoses, written for large bribes, began to appear.
Rumors began to swirl about massive bureaucratic misuses
of the state reserve of time. Paparazzi endlessly exposed
politicians suspiciously made younger until it became so
common and repetitious that they everyone eventually lost
interest.
In the end chronotechnologies shifted into the arena of
private business – treatments for rejuvenation stopped
being a cosmetic metaphor, because for large amounts of
money you could return any age to your body.
The professor understood that he was putting a new kind of
weapon into the hands of humanity, however, he couldn’t
resist his own discovery. In short time, the chronomatizers,
officially permitted only for members of a special state
service and tightly licensed for business enterprises,
appeared on the black market. Temporal theft became the
most popular article of the criminal code. In broad daylight
one could simply come upon someone’s chronomatizer in a
building entryway that in an instant would “clean” them
out of all their time to the accuracy of a day. People began