The Replies Book

With one carrot you could make a bowl of soup.

Letters and phone calls later, the sun rose slower than usual and shops stayed open longer and later.

Now there were more than twenty five hours in a day. It had started when they added half an hour to the original twenty four.

The weekend had been expanded to three days and people were campaigning for a fourth.

I am so pleased all this happened on another planet.

In between the two silver wings.

In the shade beneath the almond tree, six supporters met with their Guru.

They liked nuts.

In between the sayings of the guru and the marzipan there was time to consider and reconsider. 

They were all decisive and sympathetic. 

After all, they were good students.

Silently giving.

Without a word they donated volumes of ideas.

The ideas could be converted at the exchange.

Buying broccoli became an intellectual exercise.

Experts learned from their customers.

Can you spare five minutes?

Holding three balloons by a silk thread.

The repair of faults in the solar system was carried out by half the population of a single planet.

A lot of work for 600 million people to do on their own.

But they were specialists, born and teethed on repairs of all sorts, steeped in the culture of ionic welding and sub-particle tether reconstruction.

There was continuous learning and improvement from the early days of the particle re-grouper to the hugely advanced tether systems.

So beautiful was their work and so enthralling to watch, that many people from other places would travel with them to watch and be inspired, for their vacations.

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Two tin cans and a piece of string.

Now we just have the ear implants to speak to anyone in the world with.

There are no numbers to call just say the name, remember the face.

With the model S we can even tell if someone wants to hear from us.

With the StratoSphere gift market we know what someone would dream of having as a gift, without asking.

Yet the greatest gift anyone can receive, is to be asked a question!