Just outside my window is an enormous sign that says HABITAT, just like that, all in caps. And it often makes me wonder if I'm sitting here in some insipid experimental replication of reality. Is this real? No. No, it can't be. But what an odd social experiment. Odd, but brilliant, too.

Let's see what someone does surrounded by a known language,but let's speed the language up to 3x the normal rate.

How does smog affect the human? How long does it take to completely stifle a human lung?

If we can create an avocado addiction during the summer months, how much will X pay for avocado during inhospitable winter months?

Speaking of addiction, if an item is made cheaply available (mmm....say, scarves, for example) on every street, can a human develop an addiction to an item that is not ingested?

How long will the human psyche disguise adverse conditions?

I really need to get out of this city. ... Last bus for Temuco leaves at 11:45.