Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page200 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n The flying metal tubes were called airliners.<\/p>\n They were one hundred times faster than a horse, and twenty times faster than a ship. The airliners guzzled vast amounts of oil, and that was part of the reason for the energy crisis of 2162.<\/p>\n A holiday involved lots of strange rituals \u2026 mandatory rituals \u2026 and lots of money. Generally, people didn\u2019t do any work on a holiday so they just wasted their time away, wasted their money away, and generally made themselves poorer.<\/p>\n And sunburnt!<\/p>\n They would come back home from a holiday and boast about how fantastic it was, and how the best bit was when SimpleSimon had had a drink or three, ate something called a Vindaloo, then lost his purse and couldn\u2019t get a motorised hackney cab back to the inn.<\/p>\n SCENE 3<\/strong> BENET<\/strong> \u2022 The robot guardian of the travel warrant; And they all hated each other!<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page200 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page200 \u2013 Next The flying metal tubes were called airliners. They were one hundred times faster than a horse, and twenty times faster than a ship. The airliners guzzled vast amounts of oil, and that was part of the reason for the energy crisis of 2162. A holiday involved lots of strange … Continue reading “Chapter 26 The Almost True True Story of The Canneries200”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1669,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n(An image of a mysterious institution, an airport.)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nUp the road from here, there\u2019s a place that we call a harbour, or a port. Well, in the old days there used to be places like that called airports. They were manically overcrowded hell holes of people \u2026 technology \u2026 and guardians.<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 The bureaucratic guardian of the territorial integrity;
\n\u2022 The scatter brained guardian of the forbidden belongings; and
\n\u2022 The fire breathing guardian of the gate.<\/p>\n
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