Rant

By The Freshmaker · Sep 18, 2007 · 806 · 2
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    Definitely one of my new favorite books is Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. (You can see my review of it in the Book Reviews section.)

    I thought it was interesting that, in the story, the government had divided citizens up into night time and day time. As in, half of the people were allowed to be out and about only in the day, and the other half were only allowed to be in the city at night. It was implemented as a way to offset overcrowding in big cities. Citizens were allowed to apply for either "nighttimer" or "daytimer" status. It was definitely an interesting concept.

    Lately, my sleep schedule has been completely backward. I've been going to sleep around 9 or 10am, and waking up in the evening. And I wondered, would it be possible for people in cities to actually live like that, segregated between night and day? Would it be better or worse?

    An interesting thought.

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  1. Domoviye
    Yes it would be possible. But it wouldn't be a good thing.
    Unless your an incredibly rare individual, people need the sun. And for more then just an hour or two at dawn and dusk. I did that during one summer when I worked all nightshift all the time. By the end I was apathetic, irritable and on my days off just slept for way too long.
    A similar idea was done years ago. To deal with world wide overcrowding, the government cryogenicly froze a portion of the population. So basically the population lived in shifts. For one year (or maybe a few months) a quarter to a half of the population lived, while the rest was frozen. Then the next shift was unfrozen, and the previous shift was frozen.
    Only problem was when people in the new shift and the old shift met and fell in love.

    Still if I can find the book I'll check it out.
    Domoviye, Sep 18, 2007
  2. Eoz Eanj
    Nevertheless, Freshmakers idea would make for a great speculative ficition novel.
    Eoz Eanj, Sep 18, 2007
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