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Sudetenland Tales
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what about the friends of the family? It appeared I was obliged to murder them as well.
Either that or suffer guilt something fierce.
And that’s not even considering the effect my criminal actions would have on the friends and families of the friends of the family.
As I contemplated my dilemma, the number of people I had to kidnap and murder grew exponentially. Ultimately, I concluded that I’d have to wipe out everyone in the world. Such a task posed a number of obvious practical problems of a seemingly insurmountable nature. For one, where would I possibly hold all these people, the world’s population minus me? What holding cell was so large as to be capable of imprisoning all the world’s masses of men, women, and children?
Ah ha, I got it! I thought in triumph. The earth itself would be my cage! This simplified my task considerably. Now it was unnecessary for me to physically kidnap anyone: for everyone was already stuck here on this giant cage of a planet, and they didn’t even know it!
Quite brilliant, if I do say so myself.