Olivia asked Nick Harkaway:

The question I would like to ask is: Cake? And if so, which?

Nick Harkaway First of all: the Cartesian "cogito ergo sum" remains, to me, unassailable, though one can quarrel over the precise definitions of "I" and "am". That being the case and within the structures of a universe that may or may not actually exist in the form we assume from the measurements we are able to take, cake clearly exists and can be eaten and the experience of eating is pleasurable. Therefore, to your first question: yes.

As to which cake, I like a particular version of chocolate cake contained in the old Magimix cake book, iced with a butter, dark chocolate and golden syrup icing. I also like apple spice cake, carrot cake from one hotel half way up a mountain, and really good Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte.

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