THE DAY AFTER THE DAY THEY BANNED ADVERTISING - dawn corrigan

We all went out into the streets and stared and mulled around, like people in a movie, stunned at the silence in our heads.
 
Were we in a movie? Yes, maybe we were in a movie, and this was the first step in a complex plot we were about to become involved in, but all would be all right in the end.
 
We were not in a movie and there was not a thought in our heads.
 
Finally we drove to the zoo to see what the big animals were doing.
 
Dawn Corrigan
Pattern Recognition
William Gibson