{"id":1834,"date":"2013-07-15T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2013-07-06T07:59:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T14:59:14","slug":"the-dysfashionator-a-gadget-for-better-angels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcdream.com\/home\/2013\/07\/the-dysfashionator-a-gadget-for-better-angels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dysfashionator – A Gadget for ‘Better Angels’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Better-Angels-cover-v4-front-612px\"<\/a>Written by Greg Stolze, \u00a9 2013<\/em><\/p>\n

The Dysfashionator<\/h1>\n

This weapon against the vanity of wealth is disguised as a camera and was intended for use on people who find it entirely too tiresome when strangers take their photo.\u00a0 But it does not actually create images.\u00a0 Instead, it destroys them.<\/p>\n

It works like this.\u00a0 A beautiful woman in a Versace gown approaches the door to Le Gavroche on the arm of a man in a beautifully tailored Seville Row suit, their impeccable loveliness only marred (or is it, perhaps, enhanced<\/i>?) by a sneer of distaste at the paparazzo who snaps a picture of them as they enter.\u00a0 Gradually, however, her clothes transform around her, becoming slumpy, brown, pilly polyester<\/i>.\u00a0 Similarly, his suit gets shiny at the elbows and seat, its tasteful lapels widening to a coarse degree as the whole shape of it subtly contorts to frame his worst features.\u00a0 Within half an hour, their garments are absolute disasters.<\/p>\n

The bitch of it is, they themselves are unable to see the transformation.\u00a0 They believe they are just as stylish as when they set out.\u00a0 They can only perceive the alterations a half hour or more after undressing\u2026 or when they see photographic evidence provided by the other<\/i> paparazzi who get anonymous tips about power couples in the traditional costumes of the powerless.<\/p>\n

This Minor Environmental Change objects cost 1 Generosity<\/i> to create and has no flaws.<\/p>\n

Written by Greg Stolze, \u00a9 2013<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Written by Greg Stolze, \u00a9 2013 The Dysfashionator This weapon against the vanity of wealth is disguised as a camera and was<\/p>\n

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