Vadim set the glider in motion. The stream of vehicles below incited into a many-colored strip.
“Now it’s beautiful,” Vadim said. “But you didn’t answer me, Saul. Are burlap bags compatible with that technology?”
“Why not? The people fled the destroyed cities without taking anything with them. You’re really hung up on those burlap bags! Burlap bags were used for several centuries. They were cheap and convenient. For carrying kindling, for example.”
“Kindling?”
“To start fires. To light a stove.”
Vadim recalled their previous dispute on word history and fell silent. Neither the end of the road nor the end of the column was visible. On both sides of the road the plain, its snow undisturbed, stretched to the horizon. Vadim accelerated. A senseless undertaking, he mused. The vehicles disa
