He was annoyed by the machines which followed him or told him what to do The doctor asks why he didn‘t try it in a legal wayīrock says he did, but people only laughed and then they went to farīeing annoyed all day isn‘t charming to him at allĪt home he made plans to kill his house, because he had an electronic house Not being in touch with “the reality” made the men freak out and police came and fined him and then send him home He rented a machine which shut off every wrist radio in his environment Lots of people called him when he was in his car so he destroyed the radio transmitter by putting French chocolate ice cream into it (French ice cream because it‘s his favourite flavour and he thought what‘s good enough for him, is good enough for the transmitter) Then he killed the intercommunication system which made it impossible for his co-workers to work, then he killed his wrist radio He also hates the voices and sounds and pictures and ads you see all the time He hates the fact that everyone can call you at any time He started hating the telephone when his uncle called it the Ghost Machine, which scared him – he thinks the telephone takes your soul and changes everything
The man tells him he turned the radio off because the constant music annoys himĪlbert Brock (the prisoner) takes the doctor‘s wrist radio and destroys itīrock starts telling that he killed the telephone and then the television
The prisoner smiles which frightens the doctor (“a very sunny, pleasant warm thing, a thing that shed bright light upon the room”), and he feels uncomfortable The doctor enters, but the prisoner tells him to leave He gets the note that a prisoner was delivered to an interview chamber There is music everywhere and his wrist radio buzzes, he talks to his son Lee Technological progress and the negative consequences (how the electronic controls our life)īeing available all day long (mobile phones, Internet, …)Ī psychiatrist is in a lunatic asylum (Irrenanstalt)
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