EXPLODING FACTORY

An exploding factory doesn’t happen every day. An exploding factory is an awesome, surprising affair. It has to happen fast, a shocking surprise. One second there’s a factory sitting at the corner of 8th and Technopolis Rd.; the next, pieces of shrapnel flying at your face (perhaps you’re standing across the street, sparking up a cigarette). An exploding factory--to be a genuinely exploding factory--has to take the whole block with it. Imagine the disappointment felt by countless millions: they turn on the TV, tempted by disaster, and still see half a factory standing. Large grayish metal beams resting on each other but still standing. It looks like you could still build cars in there, they’ll think. No. A real, genuine, gut-busting exploder has to leave only a crater and nothing else. Fireworks factories are ideal. So are jet-fuel factories. We don’t want a slow-burner. We want disaster.