The missile's exhaust is visible in fast flight as the camera pans and zooms to follow it across the landscape, where it impacts a tankoid to create smoke and flames. Smoke and flames drawn on paper, cut with scissors, and thrown in the air at the right cue by poorly paid processes lurking in invisible cloaks right there in the middle of this dramatic, but unreal, and so harmless scene. Kabuki-attendants in a graphic world.     The day after my strange experience at the hive, a thought came to me in the middle of an explosion.