As you may know, I've been working on a computer game called "Reality" which, now that I live in Japan, I'm going to sell to Nintendo, and they're going to sell it to everyone. The level I'm working on at the moment, which is called "Yawp!" is a driving, running, hunting, swimming, cycling, platform-type affair set across a few different "zones," and, the novel thing about it is that when you lose a life - when you fall off a cliff, or get hit by a car or an asteroid or whatever - the computer - the actual computer in your actual room that is - sets fire to your house, wipes your bank account clean and transports you, naked, to a random country. Or it infects you with a rare parasite that eats your brain and lungs. Or, if you're young and beautiful it makes you physically hideous. Or the reverse. Sometimes it showers you with money, sometimes it endows you with a strange and wonderful talent, like the ability to see all-round 360 degrees, as if your whole body were an eye, and other times it blasts off a leg and beats you to death with it.