„Please, come in! It will be a pleasure to show our products to you. Do you already have any experience with the Snapshot Technology at all?”

“No, I never…”

“That’s all right. There always has to be a first time. There is no point in getting nervous; it is not dangerous in any way. Please, lie down on the couch over there. I will explain to you how this works.”

“I am not sure yet whether this is the right thing for me, but a friend talked me into it. She is a very enthusiastic user of your products and she sounded really convinced. She was the one who gave me your card, by the way.”

“Yes, I see. Okay, so we will start out with something nice and easy. Have you ever been fishing?”

“Fishing? You mean, catching fish?”

“Yes, exactly”

“Well, as a little boy, together with my uncle. It was quite nice.”

“In that case you will like this one. It is called Fisherman from our product line ‘wild moments’. It is the exact instant when the fisherman notices the fish taking the bait and sets his hook. Pleasure, excitement and power over nature meshed together. You will feel it.”

“What do I have to do?”

“Nothing! Just lie back and relax. See, this is one of our samples. You just screw the applicator onto the ampoule like this.”

“But the ampoule looks empty to me.”

“In a way it is. Moments are not material. You cannot see them or touch them. But the moment is in there nevertheless.”

“You mean it is invisible, like a gas?”

“No, it is not a gas. Gas is a form of matter. This is pure essence. But if you feel better with it, then think of it as a gas. It is easier for the mind to grasp something concrete, isn’t it?”

“And this applicator? What do you do with it? It looks a bit scary with all those points on it.”

“ Don’t worry about it. It looks worse than it is. It hurts less than an ordinary medical shot. The needles are just there to get the moment under your skin. It can be applied anywhere on the body, but studies have shown that the experience is most intense when the applicator is