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ANTS AND RATS.
WANDERING at random through the city once I came accross
a black box that was lying at the side of the road.It was a
smooth shiney object that didnt seem to have any joins in it.
The cube was "n penetrable to the eye but I knew there wqs a
secret of some kind contained within . On getting closer I re-
-allsed that .instead of being totally smooth as I had first ob-
-served that/cube was made of a multitude of smaller cubes
that were arran'ged in an orderly grid fashion accross it surface
Nearer still and;! imagined the cube to be of immense proport-
-ions for I'.had been walking for some minutes by now and still
had not got passed it.
Eventually I reached the base of this object and observed hum-
-an beings entering the cube in rapid succession. The people
seemed to be coming out of the ground through a small hole
and each of them were earring a smaller black rectangle with
a handel on top of it. At first I though they were build'ng the
object out of these other smaller black boxes but a passerby
answered when pressed that the smaller boxes contained food.
and then when pressed aga'n told me that the smaller cubes
that made.:t.he surface of the building were what they called
windows. Then the thought struck me that this object contained
some k''nd of-a-,:"QueBn ant" and these her workers were br'ng-
-ing food for.her. ..•,. they seemed confused when I said "ants"
and told- me.'.'" . .No. .this which you are see'ng now is: -.no
ants, .this is the Rat Race. , ".
On further-observanc''es of the hole from which they sprang
and the roda-nt-like movements of the scared nervous creaters
I had to- agree. .11 eft the place rapidly.
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