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title: Creation myth
genre: verse
project:
title: Autocento of the breakfast table
css: autocento
...
So two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings \
walk into a bar. One turns to the other and says, \
"Did you remember to check the end state \
of that simulation we were running?" The other \
says, "No, I thought that you did?" To which \
the first replies, "Oh shit, we missed it. \
I suppose we must do all of this again. Barkeep,
two beers please." The bartender nods in that way \
that bartenders do, pours the two beers, \
expertly, by the way, just so, and hands them \
to the first hyperintelligent pandimensional being. \
The second one pulls a few singles out of his \
wallet, places them on the bar, and the pair \
turn around and begin walking toward a table \
in the middle of the mostly-empty bar. The bar- \
tender picks up the money, fans it out, frowns, \
and calls to his patrons' backs: "Hey, this \
isn't enough!" The two turn around simultan- \
eously, with parity, and stare at him. A beat.
One of them, the one without the beer, breaks \
the silence by exclaiming, "Oh dear god, I'm \
sorry! I didn't know your prices went up since \
last time. What do I owe you?" The bartender \
says, "Oh, just another dollar-fifty." The being \
reaches in his back pocket, slides out his \
wallet, looks in smiling, and frowns when he sees \
it's empty. He looks to the other and says, \
"You got a buck-fifty I can borrow?"
The second hyperintelligent pandimensional being \
considers this. He sets the beers down \
on the table, pulls out his own wallet, opens \
it, and frowns. "I'm broke too," he says.
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