(Not the movie, still the book)
Sooo, I have decided to go back into the archives and pull out some unpublished drafts that never saw the light of your screen. Until now. I give you, in their somewhat incomplete yet unedited form; The Drafts.
Draft the Ist: If Wishes Were Horses...
How many times have you heard that phrase, or have come across it in writing?
There are some inherent problems in this statement, however, and it is on these that I will be focusing on for the rest of this post.
From the information given it is impossible to know the time of the relation
(wishes=horses)
which might give us a clue as to the validity of the argument. In other words, at what point in time did this transmutation of non-corporeal thought into corporeal Equine occur, as it were.
Is this simply another question like "Hey, I wonder what this world would be like if we were all upside down?" and of course the answer is that philosophically there would be no difference if we were created that way. If that was all we had ever known, to us we would be right side up!
So if since the beginning of time
(wishes=horses),
pedestrian beggars would still be because wishes would not be wishes at all, they would be horses, or vice versa!
But then what if, say, this change happened over night, and all of a sudden wishes become horses. At first your average beggar might be pleased, although reasonably very startled. He could sell the horse and make some money. But soon, assuming the wish rate among beggars is rather high, the market would be flooded with horses, and the value would drop precipitously until they would be worthless. Not to mention the sophistication required for the waste removal system after the inundation of the streets... <
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And let's not forget feed. Chances are grain crops would be depleted leaving very high prices, thus making the beggars unable to support their horses, thus causing horses to die, thus causing another lack of horses. And if the horses died, what would happen to the wishes? Would they die because they are equal to the horses? Or would they somehow be released and continue to exist?
*Knowing look,
"Exactly..."
Maybe if wishes were ponies instead...seeing as to how they're smaller so wouldn't they eat less? And that mean there was less waste to remove, correct? So, if wishes were ponies...
...it would take slightly longer for the afore mentioned calamity to befall mankind.
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