Dan stepped on the train and saw Lyla, a stranger.
"Didn't we see each other tomorrow?" he asked. "That's two days in a row."
"What do you mean?"
But he couldn't satisfy her with an answer, and she turned away.
The next day, Lyla saw Dan step on again.
"We saw each other yesterday," she said, "do you remember?"
"Is that a joke?"
She couldn't explain herself, and he turned away.
When they saw each other again, many years later, they didn't speak.
For those of you who don't follow hypothetical games concocted by the pop culture cognoscenti, this one presents the following query:
If we lived in a totalitarian state, and the government mandated that all its citizens wake up to the same song every day, on state radio or television screens or some other universally-viewed device, and fall asleep to a second song every night, and you were granted the right to choose the two songs, what would you pick?
Here are my choices:
Morning - "Hold Me Now" by the Thompson Twins
Evening - "Amie" by Pure Praire League
What are your 'government songs'?