Perhaps her 'crime' was being right; the effect on their lives was much less than Hugo feared.It was at a wild and uproarious drunken party for Hugo's...and Martha's joint sixtieth birthday that someone suggested a Conga and Martha decided to liven it up by giving everyone a whip. Instead of merely dancing, each one whipped the one in front, and they went round and round the New House of Joy, in and out of the doors, and up and down the stairs, each whipping and being whipped and all having a. Hence the growing perversity of dreams that were perverse enough to begin with. Unable, and unwilling, to leave the fields of her imagination fallow she had sown and ploughed until the completion over which she obsessed could no longer be reaped within the confines of her own autonomy. Leaving her no choice. And a problem of an altogether different nature. How blessed the person whose fantasy life fulfilled utterly throughout the duration of that person’s existence.. He was up late watching a TV show from the night before. The show was an international phenomena. It was a very off beat cop show. It was so off beat it ran in three different versions, in three different languages. The show had exactly the same plot line, and even the same characters, but somehow each version was a little different. He watched the latest two episodes because he had missed the previous episode. That was the beauty of the online TV shows, they were all there waiting for me.. X-MAN 71: CHARLES HERE. DIDN'T SOMEONE SAY THIS IS A NEW PROBLEM?ALICE 772: YES IT IS, CHARLES, BUT THOSE OF FRANCE WERE ALSO AFFECTED BYTHE CHLORINE AND PHOSGENE GAS THE FIRST WORLD WAR. WE ARE ALSO AFFECTEDBY WHAT WAS CALLED CONSUMPTION.X-MAN 71: SAME THING, JUST DIFFERENT CONCENTRATION. MODERN POLLUTANTSCREATE GASES THAT AFFECT THE LUNGS, AND CAN CAUSE EMPHYSEMA ANDBRONCHITIS. TROUBLE BREATHING. IN THE 19TH CENTURY THEY HAD THAT PROBLEMBECAUSE OF ENCLOSED SPACE. THEY CALL IT TUBERCULOSIS.