Trafika Europe 4 - Armenian Rhapsody

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

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