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Right in its path was Rancher John Seller, who was asleep in his house at Noondoonia Station, a 50-sq.-mi. sheep spread 480 miles east of Perth, Western Australia's capital city. Just 35 minutes after midnight, he and his wife, Elizabeth, were shaken awake by a loud noise. They ran outside. Said Seiler: "It was an incredible sight-hundreds of shining lights dropping all around the homestead. They were white, but as they began dropping, the pieces turned dull red. All the time there was a tremendous sonic boom...
...feel asleep. The two fraternity boys in front of me broke out their thai stick, and no one seemed to mind, except two businessmen who were prattling in German and clutching their briefcases as if they were holding babies to the bosom. And I caught a whif too many, and I feel asleep, and I woke up with this feeling, with this powerful sun streaming through the bus window, magnified onto my skull, popping beads of sweat from my pores, soaking my clothes....., loathsome feeling...
...film opens in a T.V. studio operated by the Emergency Broadcast System. (Yes, there's a reason for those shrill test frequencies that get you out of bed when you fall asleep the night before watching Kojak.) A moderator and a scientific expert are having a violent political disagreement about how to handle the zombies. In the pandemoniun, four people--a technician, his stage manager-girlfriend, and two armed guards--decide to take off (quite literally--they leave in a helicopter) and find a safer area. They eventually land in a large, abandoned shopping mall outside Pittsburgh and decide...
Something of the sort seems to have happened to the LaRozas. Perhaps lulled by the too warm water and a bit of alcohol, they probably fell asleep minutes after settling into the spa. The sleep turned into coma, the coma to death. Though the deaths are the first to be attributed to hot-tub heatstroke, they are not likely to have been the only ones to occur so far. Says Coroner Kornblum: "God only knows how many cases have gone unreported...
...half-formed thought. Oddly, it is about umbrellas. Something about umbrellas getting mixed up in restaurants. It is not the dazzling sort of thought that stings the thinker into wakefulness, and the man does not follow it to its conclusion, if there were any. Soon he is asleep...