During one's lifetime there may be some instances whereby conventional communication is unavailable. A few examples:
- The glorious day has arrived and the forces of darkness have blocked all mobile signals, the internet has been shut down and the telephone exchanges are under armed guard by government goons.
- An absent minded dominatrix has left you tied to a radiator for 3 days in a damp Kings Cross basement, wearing nothing but a boy scouts' outfit, a cruelly placed woggle and a prostate massaging device with seemingly immortal batteries.
- You have imbibed enormous quantities of gin and have been rendered speechless and paralysed except for your fingers and eyelids.
In these situations it is vital that one still has the ability to contact one's comrades. The answer, fellow WDs, is Morse code. Invented in 1836 and ceased as an international standard for maritime communication in 1999 this method of communication may still come in handy for hapless persons stranded in undesirable predicaments. It is for your safety that I have created these diagrams. All you need is a method to create an aural, electrical or visual signal.
Ah yes, this was employed by a kidnap victim in Scandi-Noir thriller The Bridge. To no avail in that case, but I think it would be more successful in the scenarios you mention. It requies co-ordination of course, but every-one knows you become more co-ordinated after imbibing enormous quantities of gin.
ReplyDeleteDo you know, I was transfixed by The Bridge and had completely forgotten the blinking morse.
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