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| Bibs | ||
| People who are put in cold-sleep because there is no niche for them in society. |
What can you do with your surplus population? Here's one sarcastic suggestion from PKD.
| The young couple, black-haired, dark-skinned, probably Mexican or Puerto Rican... said in a low voice, "Sir, we want to be put to sleep. We want to become bibs."
Lackmore said in a pleasant tone of voice... "Have you thought it over carefully, folks? It's a big step. You might be out for, say, a few hundred years." The boy, glancing at his wife, murmured, "No sir... Neither of us can find a job and we're about to be evicted from our dorm. We don't even own a wheel, and what can you do without a wheel?.." |
| From Cantata 140,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1964 Additional resources -
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"Bib" is an acronym - it describes how you are stored in a Special Public Welfare warehouse.
See also the references for cold-sleep and cold-rest.
"Your appeal... is to the dark kid and his wife scared to death their only prospect is winding up bibs in some gov warehouse. 'Bottled in bond,' as they say."
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