THE P**N ARTIST (4)

Let us follow the path of a kilobyte of information as it travels through the modern communication network. We shall start at the main processor of an X-show.

From there it travels through fiber optic wires, tracing a path under the ground until it reaches a transmitter.

The transmitter gathers a bunch of kilobytes and shoots the suckers into the atmosphere, propelling them past a sea of fliers, through the network of Cleaners operating around the world, past the outer levels of the earth's protective layer until it reaches a satellite. Then the satellite eats one of the kilobytes that tells it where the hapless data has to travel.

Once their destination is ascertained the kilobytes are powered either to another satellite, or back through the atmosphere if the location is correct, where they knock out a few more inadvertent particles on the way until they go all the way back to the processor supplying a particular X-suit.

Then the kilobytes undergo a transformation, generating imag