A 1200 METROS DE PROFUNDIDADE NUM BOMB SHELTER
| 1881 U.S oF A...eleven permanent gun-platforms and breast-height walls, bonnets on the traverses, a portion of the masonry and all the earth covering of the bomb-proof shelter, the postern gallery, a part of the earth covering of the magazines, and an earthen cover face on the channel front. |
appears in print at least as early as 1895
O GAJO LEVA ORDENS PARA NÃO LEVAR NADA
DEIXANDO PARA TRÁS OS PERTENCES E A ESCOVA DE DENTES
MOSTRA ( SABE-SE LÁ A QUEM) QUE A SUA PARTIDA É CASUAL
E NADA TEVE A VER COM ORDENS MILITARES
POIS SE ASSIM FOSSE TERIA LEVADO OS OBJECTOS DE HIGIENE PESSOAL...
(SEM SOBRESSELENTES NESTA AMÉRICA DE ESCASSEZ....) O HERÓI SAI DO ELEVADOR E PASSA POR PORTA GIRATÓRIA UNIDIRECCIONAL????
A SAÍDA É BLOQUEADA...MAS CONTINUA A GIRAR APARENTEMENTE....
E ESCADAS ROLANTES QUE SÓ ANDAM PARA BAIXO ATÉ UMA MESA ONDE SERVEM
178 REFEIÇÕES ALIMENTO VERMELHO E 3 COMPRIMIDOS
ENGOLIDOS COM MEIO LITRO DE LÍQUIDO AMARELO...
SÃO PSICOLOGICAMENTE INDEPENDENTES, O BEM ESTAR NÃO DEPENDE DA PRESENÇA DE MAIS ALGUÉM...LOGO PSICOPATAS EREMITÕES SERVEM BEM...
SÃO TRATADOS POR NÚMEROS POIS OS NOMES TERIAM ASSOCIAÇÕES NOSTÁLGICAS COM A VIDA NA SUPERFÍCIE
O PLANO MAIS SEGURO PARA O POVO EM GERAL É DESTINADO AOS ELEMENTOS DUVIDOSOS E SUBVERSIVOS : VENDILHÕES DA PAZ, EXTREMISTAS DA OPOSIÇÃO, CRÍTICOS DA SOCIEDADE E OUTROS MANÍACOS....
DANDO-LHES O PLANO 2 A 30 METROS DE PROFUNDIDADE
E PROVISÕES PARA 4 MESES
O PLANO ZERO DA AUSTERIDADE NUCLEAR É À SUPERFÍCIE
NA CRISE O DIREITO A ENTERRAR-SE É FICAR PROTEGIDO DOS SEUS EFEITOS
HÁ UM PARALELISMO COM A ACTUAL CRISE
RECEBEM PLACAS E O DIREITO DE SEREM ENTERRADOS EM VIDA....
O HERÓI COMEÇA A QUESTIONAR-SE
PARA QUÊ..ser submetido a uma instrução tão intensa, só para carregar em botões
um computador ou um macaco condicionado fariam o mesmo...
The tale is told from the first person perspective (diary) of a modern soldier X-127 living in the underground military complex Level 7, where he is expected to reside permanently, fulfilling the role of commanding his nation’s nuclear weapons with more five hundred people a 1200 metros de profundidade
como evacuar o calor produzido pelo reactor nuclear e pelo grau geotérmico ou geotermalismo que atingiria
uns 40º C.....a resposta é refrigerar tudo né...
o nível 7 tem comida para 300 anos
os do plano 5 só têm para 200 anos coitados...
compota de con's Plot summary
During his forced residence in a deep underground offensive-warfare complex, X-127 is ordered to push the bomb buttons to begin World War III (which lasts a total of 2 hours and 58 minutes...FROM NINE OF JUNE 9.12m TO 11HOURS AND 20 MINUTES...BOLAS SÓ DURA 2 HORAS E 8 MINUTOS ESTES GAJOS TAMÉM NUM SABEM FAZER CONTAS...)..but refuses to push buttons A 4 B4 C4 OS DAS BATERIAS DE BOMBAS RADIOACTIVAS QUE CONTAMINARÃO A TERRA POR GERAÇÕES ...POIS NÃO PODE MATAR A MÃE QUE POR ESSA ALTURA SÓ LEVOU COM UMAS GIGATONES EM CIMA...A NARRATIVA É RIDÍCULA PIOR QUE A DE SÓCRATES....
A ÚLTIMA SALVA DE MÍSSEIS É ÀS 11H20 MINUTOS MAS SÓ EXPLODEM ÀS 12H10 MINUTES LOGO DÁ 2 HORAS E 58...MAS POR ESSE CRITÉRIO A PRIMEIRA SALVA DO ALERTA DAS 9 E 12 AINDA NÃO TINHA EXPLODIDO E FORA LANÇADA ANTES MAS ENFIM...
FOI O INIMIGO INOMINÁVEL E NÃO NOMEADO A lançar por erro 12 ogivas
as populações matam-se para entrar nos aBRIGOS COMO SE SABE ISTO?
SABE-SE POIS OS COMENTADORES REPORTARAM ATÉ AO FIM MORRENDO DE MICROFONE NA MÃO
A ÚLTIMA BOMBA EXPLODIU ÀS 12 E 10 E A INIMIGA ÀS 11 E 45 MINUTES
INÚTIL SERÁ DIZÊ-LO SOMOS OS VENCEDORES
O INIMIGO ACUSOU-NOS MAS A ORDEM FOI DADA POR UM ATOMFONE
QUE REGISTROU AS EXPLOSÕES E ORDENOU O ATAQUE
A RETALIAÇÃO FOI IMEDIATA E AUTOMÁTICA
2000 OGIVAS PARA DAR UM AVISO
NÃO SE PODIA CONFIAR NOS POLÍTICOS....
TROCARAM AMABILIDADES REACCIONÁRIOS BESTAS DESUMANAS BÁRBAROS
DE 3 MIL MILHÕES SOBREVIVERAM 20 OU 15 MILHÕES
QUE MORREM OBVIAMENTE TODOS
DE MODO IDIÓTICO POIS APARENTEMENTE
OS ABRIGOS NÃO ESTÃO CONSTRUÍDOS EM ZONAS IMPERMEÁVEIS
From that point, humanity’s few civilian survivors move from the surface of the earth to a collection of underground shelter complexes on Levels 1, 2 , level 3 a 150 metros de profundidade 25 unidades com 25,000 people each....food and energy for 25 years.... through 5 a 450 metros 20,000 people altos cidadãos, administradores, generais políticos, while military personnel already occupy the deepest and safest Levels 6 the military elite 2,000 people and 7......
It later emerges that the orders given have been wholly automatic due to a launch on warning strategy, and the war has taken place as a series of electronic responses to an initial accident.
X-127 and his fellow shelter inhabitants belatedly learn the criteria that had determined admission to the shelters: Civilians were granted only an illusion of protection, while government officials and military personnel were granted significantly more security. Those who were assigned to launch the nuclear missiles, and their support staff, were selected for their ability to behave like machines, yet are counted upon to preserve the human spirit and rebuild the human race. X-127 and his colleagues attempt to carry on human life, but discover that institutions such as marriage and preparations for child-rearing have been hollowed out by conditions and attitudes in the antiseptic underground.
Toward the end of the novel, the inhabitants of the surviving shelters gradually find their deaths, as radioactive surface contamination makes its way down past air filters and into ground water sources. As the Level 7′s safety falls into question, its inhabitants confront their isolation, overconfidence in technology, loneliness below a dead world, and the sanity of a society whose momentum toward annihilation exceeded its collective will to live.
At last, the inhabitants of “Level 7″ are exterminated through a malfunction in their nuclear power pile.
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Structure[edit]
The book is apparently written in such a way to discourage the reader from determining which side is which. References to democracy are structured as to be just as applicable to Soviet democracy as to British or American democracy. The book contains no geographical references or individual names, but does use non-metric measurements. It is left to the individual reader to determine if this indeed identifies a Western setting or merely reflects the author’s background. In any case, specific national identities are arguably irrelevant to the book’s themes of dehumanization, the abstraction of nuclear warfare, and the danger that this leads to when combined with the destructive potential of the weapons involved. The novel thus acts as a warning against the nuclear arms race, as the original (but removed) postscript makes clear:
This book is neutral – in the sense that it does not defend either the East or the West. It is not neutral in the sense that it accuses both. It is submitted for the benefit of the West and the East, as well as anybody caught in between.
The Diary of Push-Button Officer X-127 is intended as a preventative anti-radioactive medicine, good for consumption in any place in the world. It is especially offered to button-pushers, rocket constructors, nuclear physicists, megaton bomb manufacturers, “small” atomic bomb producers, and last but not least, statesmen and politicians. It is ‘not’ (!) effective against buttons, robots, rockets, and the bombs themselves.
Originally, the manuscript contained a preface by Martian archaeologists, who discover the diary amongst the ruins of a destroyed Earth. However, this was removed in editions earlier than 2003, because it was felt that it spoiled the ending of the book.
Level 7 was adapted by J. B. Priestley for a 1966 episode of the BBC2 television science-fiction drama programme Out of the Unknown.
^ Roshwald, Mordecai (1959). Level 7.....
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