Harrison Bergeron Ballerinas

In the the year 2081, and all people have been made equal through the use of physical and mental handicaps. The United States Constitution mandates this equality in the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments, and the law is enforced by Diana , the Handicapper General.George Bergeron and Hazel Bergeron are watching ballerinas on television, so that their dancing is not too beautiful. Since George is naturally quite intelligent, he must wear a mental handicap radio in his ear it torments him with a variety of sharp noises every twenty seconds or so, so that he is never able to think too hard.When it occurs to him that the ballerinas should not be handicapped, his idea is immediately interrupted by the mental handicap radio in his ear. Two of the
The ballerina reads that since Harrison is a genius and an athlete and is currently under-handicapped,he should be extremely dangerous. This ballerina is wearing a hideous mask and heavier handicap bags than any of the other dancers.Suddenly, Harrison himself enters the television studio, causing an earthquake with his movements. He wears heavier handicap bags than anyone else ever has, and he must carry three hundred pounds of scrap metal at all times. He also wears a rubber ball for a nose, caps for his teeth, and must shave his eyebrows to handicap his handsome face. Nevertheless, he remains immensely powerful.He announces that he is the Emperor, and that everyone must obey him. He tears off his handicaps and announces that the first woman to volunteer herself will become his empress. One of the ballerinas stands up and joins him.Harrison removes the handicaps from the musicians in the studio, and commands them to play their best so that he and his Empress can dance. They dance intensely and beautifully, leaping so high that they kiss the ceiling.Suddenly, Diana Moon appears in the studio and shoots Harrison and the Empress dead with a