Sunday, February 12, 2012

The scam

They act suspicious.
Else we will be.
My bags are checked in.
Nothing wrong with me either.
I smile back and find my window seat
waiting to awe me.
Pasted to the glass, my reflection observes
everything moving back.
And then, there is great hurry.
Runway to jump to fly.
I'm shrinking in the million eyes below.
I wave back to someone I'm sure is inserted there.
The simulation effects are awesome.
visually and sounds-wise.
Its just how I thought it would be -
the circuits of roads and the frothy clouds.
I start clicking pictures and this is
were I assume their sensor goes off.
Send in the distractions.
Air hostess with food
and something about turbulence
continuous announcements to remain seated etc.
If you continue watching and clicking
they send in a more clouds - these stretch over every part you can see.
If you watch closely you can see, where they've stitched the copies together.
Its an endless loop.
Finally the pilot is informed when they are done.
And they announce "landing".
Yes, I'm air quoting here.
 Again images rapidly change.
All those scenes of lazing below the sun changes.
Thump to run and great pretentious hurry of scenes whizzing past.
The scenes finally stop.
As I walk to collect my bags,
I think their execution is almost fool-proof but nobody can justify
completing a one-day train journey in a couple of hours .
I also think
its amazing what they do with technology these days.
These videos behind the glass,
the engine noise,
the swapping of the cities beneath.



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