Logic Beach: Part I

by Exurb1a

I explained the entire situation to the cat.

Her accent was thick but more out of apathy than lack of practice.

(Gendered numbers: yes, that seems like an entirely reasonable way to construct grammar...)

They’re building heaven.”

I did some top-quality shouting then, tears and all.

Could you imagine a universe where pi didn’t dictate the circumference of a circle, for example?” “With enough LSD perhaps, yes.”

The universe is logic’s daughter, and by extension so are we.”

You took fourteen billion years to make, and you won't happen again. Your ghost is everywhere now.

If we created time and space once more, fourteen billion years ago and ran it forward, if the universe may only come about in one configuration, then we would be destined to sit here once more, with that teacup almost empty, with that sad look on your face, with Mr. Hayden gagged and with things exactly as they are once again.