Zones

Without knowing it Alfred and Julia live in a land of pure invention It is the richest and most beautiful land in the world From a height this land looks like a piece of felt from close up like a clean and tiny park The footpaths are lined with benches and the streets with banks Alfred and Julia have been married for 8 years are childless and live on the 16th floor of a new building Thanks to their various crises they have got to know each other somewhat better but their most outstanding characteristic remains their mediocrity On Friday August 12th 1977 a mysterious epidemic breaks out in their country The mass media ensure that the news is widely broadcast The authorities order a ban on information but those concerned break their imposed silence On Sunday evening it becomes known that the epidemic was nomore than a kind of dress rehearsal for a real emergency Alfred and Julia continue to live in a land of pure invention but now they are conscious of the fact