Tuesday, September 13, 2016

An eternity for Rock

Here's the way Rock's new world was rigged, and it seemed as if there was nothing he could do about it. As he searched throughout his house for his glasses, he wondered if this was a new eternity for him.
Someone had started a loop in which Ricky and Lucy Ricardo would repeat their dialogue from I Love Lucy without change. For instance, Ricky would say, "What time is it?," and Lucy would respond, "It's 5:30 a.m.," and that is where time would stop.
Rock thought he might have to accept this, but just before he climbed back into his back bedroom bed, he recognized the symptoms of hypoglycemia. He ate a tube of Gu and a small disc of peppermint candy from his bathroom and said to himself, out loud, "C'mon, man. Let logic take over."
Within five minutes, he knew it was a little before six a.m., Tuesday. His glasses were under the maroon chair in his living room, and he was not obliged to do anything for anyone until Wednesday. He turned off his television and called up Rock dreams from the Internet.

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