I had the most unusual dream last night, and I woke up feeling ashamed that I was in it. (Don't you hate it when that happens?)
I lived in this self-contained tower--an entire self-contained society inside a large skyscraper type building. Near the apex, beginning on the 84th floor (yes, 84th!) were special penthouse floors where all the snooty rich assholes living in this tower resided. Just below the 84th down to the 64th were hospital floors, and that's where all the rich people worked. The hierarchy just worked backwards from there, with the poor dredges working on the bottom-most floors (closest to the actual ground, the actual world...ironic, no?)
Anyway, these smarmy people lived in what was called the "beam"...that denoted all floors above 84. That part of the building formed what, I swear to God, looked like a gleaming white douche nozzle. The Beamers (yes, like the freakin' BMW even) were so bored with the monotony of life and living inside a self-contained tower society that pretty much owned, so they found ways to do really awful things to all the other people residing inside the tower on all levels...playing with life and death. Evil things. Horrible things. I guess you could call my dream a nightmare, really.
I lived in the beam, and I was trying to kill some other chick who lived there because we were in love with the same man. How petty can it get? She was trying to kill me too. So that was our existence...trying to kill each other inside of a beam shooting straight up to heaven.
To bad we were all going to burn in hell.
Then I woke up.
3 comments:
That could be the basis for an interesting sci-fi short story.
Did you know they're planning on building a society like this one in Tokyo? It'll take up five city blocks. There's another building being build that continuously spins so the people in it can have multiple views...seems dangerous though--a skyscraper that continually rotates. The whole idea freaks me out.
Yeah, I saw some special once about the Japanese drawing up blueprints for some cube city, where rails ran vertically and diagonally to buildings that had connecting spans waaaaay the fuck up high... I just don't know about that. Just because you CAN engineer something doesn't always mean it's a good idea to try. If history has taught us nothing (ahem, the atomic bomb?) I think it's taught us that.
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