![]() ![]() ![]() Men who played presidents on TV could become presidents. A whole nation might jump off a cliff like swarming lemmings. A man might discover that the woman he lived with was his father’s illegitimate child. Criminals could become kings and kings be unmasked as criminals. A tornado might carry your house to a faraway land where, upon landing, it would squash a witch. A beauty might fall asleep and, when kissed, wake up speaking a different language and in that new language reveal a completely altered character. A woman might fall in love with a piglet, or a man start living with an owl. It was no longer possible to predict the weather, or the likelihood of war, or the outcome of elections. Old friends could become new enemies and traditional enemies could be your new besties or even lovers. And in the Age of Anything-Can-Happen, well, anything could happen. He had heard many people say that on TV and on the outré video clips floating in cyberspace, which added a further, new-technology depth to his addiction. It was the Age of Anything-Can-Happen, he reminded himself. ![]()
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