You look great, wow, young lady!"My heart was beating up to my throat but I sat and she put the dryerback over my head. Little by little it sunk into ...e that she had somehowaccepted, she hadn't scolded me. But I was anxious about what was tocome, would she punish me, humiliate me?I couldn't relax and those ten minutes seemed to me to be the longest inmy life. And finally she lifted the hood again, probed my curlers andlooked straight in my eyes:"Would you like me to take your curlers out and. Unreliable at best.Memories.Closing her eyes in concentration, Tarjana grasped at the shreds of the ... memories of ... what?The Harrowing?Watrali?There were no such things, no such peoples.The jungle was empty of human life, at least, life like that.There were no tribes, no peoples, there were only families and individuals, all of them trying to snatch life from the dripping teeth of the green. Some of them came together in small groups, usually extended families, sometimes friends, but never. I don't know what it was that pushed me to that particular choice, but I had a strong urge to walk upstream. I had gone about a mile when I saw a disturbing act being performed on the river bank. A woman was being raped by three men while another was tied up and lying to one side, apparently waiting her turn. I knew that it was rape and not a consensual party because the victim was being held by two men while the third man was penetrating her. She was fighting and screaming, but it was doing. " And what's in it for the contestants." Well, they'll be earning $10,000 per day that they remain in the house." So its in their interests to be as slutty as they possibly can?" Exactly, John." So tell me, Jane, why do we call it Big Fucker International." Its international, because contestants can be any colour or nationality in the world." But over 18 only, huh, Jane?" Of course, John." And will these 10 contestants always be 5 men and 5 women." Not necessarily, John. The audience can choose.