Trafika Europe 4 - Armenian Rhapsody

Fred attempted to force out a weak smile, but from his mouth, like fidgety worms, teeth that were falling out began to crawl. The studio audience, which till this point had been hypnotically silent, suddenly burst into applause. Fred stuck his teeth back into his mouth. Everyone drawn at that moment to the TV screen was stunned. But the professor finally took pity on the audience and, resetting the chronomatizer into the mode of a time injector, infused the lost years back into Fred’s body. His assistant’s organism in just a few seconds managed the return path, to age 25. Thus with that event the era of temporal technologies began. Humanity once and for all lost its moral virtue, or rather what was left of that virtue, but if you are truthful, it was more like the memory of its virtue that it had already lost long ago. Futurologists have not yet managed to publish all their prognostications, but the invention has already surpassed all potentialities in actual practice. It produced stunning fruits that have flowed like uncontrolled lava. Certainly, Coifman declared the essentially humanist principles of chronopheresis. Let’s say, for example, the parents of an incurably ill person acquired the possibility under state supervision to give their ill child several years each from their own body’s life. In this way, it would seem artificial to maintain the sick individual in that state of his organism’s

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