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A perverse machine

Chicken

Next to my hotel is a funfair. After dinner my publisher’s daughter wanted to go into a small rollercoaster.
My companion said to me: “You have been to Afghanistan and Iraq you can go into this rollercoaster as well.” I didn’t want to be called a chicken, so I gave up my objections and together with my publisher’s daughter and my companion I got into the rollercoaster.
But I hated the ride. A ferris wheel alas, but a rollercoaster is sickening. It is a perverse machine.


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Did they try to make the digestion of the dinner more pleasant? What peerpressure can make people do...
said Calisha Mienona 27/09/2008 10:08 • x
A pervers machine? A killing machine.
The only time I went on a pirate boat on a funfair
I screemed to stop it because I thought I would
be dead any moment.
said Vera M. 27/09/2008 10:24 • x
Arnon
Next time when you sit on the couch with your companion you can say to her: "Bring me my beer, I've been to Afghanistan and Iraq."
said David Martino 27/09/2008 11:21 • x
Dear Vera,
A killing machine?
But your not dead are you?

yours,

Eric
said Eric Wander 27/09/2008 12:08 • x
Chicken
@the writer

I'm a little disappointed that you don't want to be called a chicken.
said Strasse 27/09/2008 13:25 • x
I'm puzzled by your phrasing. You call it a perverse machine, but why is that?
Why is the machine perverse? I think it's a bit like life (in the Werstern world) tself. You wait most of the time, you that you'll be safe no matter what, and when "something" happens, you scream the whole ride. Afterwards, of course, you talk endlessly about it.
said Dens Powells 27/09/2008 13:47 • x
arnon
my dear,how long did you stay in afganistan or iraq?dont think it makes you hero.hopeiess cause!
said tamara kobaidze 27/09/2008 14:08 (Updated 11:06) • x
hi
do you think,you have changed in afganistan or iiraq? or you need to be hero?
said tamara kobaidze 27/09/2008 14:32 (Updated 11:06) • x
@ arnon
Some thing are just unplesant,that doesen't mean your a chicken.
said Sara * 27/09/2008 15:11 • x
correction (things)
said Sara * 27/09/2008 15:12 • x
Arnon
How do you cope with turbulence on plane rides?
said Oscar Wilde 27/09/2008 16:20 • x
@Dens
It is perverse because it's sick and just not right.

That's why.
said Saint Léger 27/09/2008 16:48 • x
One day I saw a fat woman descending from a local funfair rollercoaster. She was covered with vomit. I smiled. I am a big perverse chicken.
said Jan Thys 27/09/2008 18:02 • x
Arnon
Oh come on, don`t be such a baby.
said Manon Kadoke 27/09/2008 18:45 • x
Arnon
Are you thankful to your companion? She took you to a place you hadn't been before.

Do you think a rollercoaster could function as a torture device?
said Jeanette P. 27/09/2008 23:13 • x
Oscar W
I don't like it but it is nothing compared to a rollercoaster.
said Arnon Grunberg 28/09/2008 11:11 • x
@arnon and oscar
Maybe it makes a difference that a plane transports people from A to B. The road is something to accept. While a rollercoaster means useless turbulence and sometimes even giving you a feeling of unsafety just for fun.
I wonder when it stops: funfairs become more more extreme, while planes become more comfortable.
said Hannah verheezen 28/09/2008 13:22 • x
I don't like funfairs, never did. There was yet one period in my life where I did visit them. Some years ago when I was in mourning I used to go on the rollercoaster to forget my pain.
said Mieke Dutoit 28/09/2008 15:35 • x
I used to tease my companion by not giving in to such wishes of her and to be gladly called a chicken. The results were sometimes bitter fights. So, one has the choice of getting sick due to a fight or due to, for example , a ride on a horrendous rollercoaster. Once you have a demanding companion (or an audience) there is no escape.
said Jan Thys 28/09/2008 17:02 • x
Dear Vera M.
a pirate boat is not a rollercoaster.

Eric
said Eric Wander 30/09/2008 00:06 • x
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