A prospectus for a short story I want to write: heartbeats.
What if you had a quota, and you could run out on a daily basis? What if heartbeats were a commodity? What if there were rich people who died during sex because they forgot to calibrate their electric heartbeat regulators to compensate for rigorous physical activity? What if manual labor wasn't "backbreaking?"
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I think humans as a whole would have several options. Some would be very scrupulous as to how many heartbeats they expended on various activities; others would spend them recklessly. Others would just in the via media. Which of those is best, I can't decide. Glad it's not up to me.
ReplyDeleteWell, I've read some work people have done in which time is a commodity; what makes heartbeats different from strength or time or thought?
ReplyDeletePeople's heartbeats are already a commodity, after all, when you think about it. Rich people (and old people, and fat people) die during sex for almost the very reason you cite here. Heart disease is one of the leading killers in America. So what's the new angle?