L, M, N, O were all of six. Short pants, dirty hands, broken knees and good hearts. They were not like the other kids, though. L, M, N, O played separately, laughed sensibly and most importantly thought differently.
(This is not a poem.)
L - What would be best, you know?
O - What?
N - Robot-Slaves?
M - No! A machine that allows us, the whole world, to be caught in a single-day loop!
L - YES!!
N - Okay, that would be AWESOME.
O - Ya. What day will it be?
L - It's like this...
M - So we make this thing, and then we tell everyone a year in advance. So that we can all be prepared. And on that day we can all do brilliant things for 24 hours and then that's it.
L - Yes, we can eat ice-cream, the grown ups can have all their sex, no one will work, everyone will have a day full of pure fun.
M - And then we do that everyday, forever.
L - And no one will get bored, because every time we start afresh. So it will be like having this great experience for the first time ever.
O - I wont even go to school.
M - Of course you wont silly, we will be the same age forever. We won't need stupid school.
N - But..
L - What?
N - Don't you think this plan is flawed?
M - No?
N - Look, so you will announce it to the world a year in advance that, a particular day, will now be the ONE particular day forever. Very nice. Thank you! Enter the human mind. Dude? Everyone is going to want to have the BEST possible day ever. O, wont you want to slap that bully from school on that day?
O - Well, yes!
N - Let us imagine for a while that you do! Now the awful bully is going to try and hunt you down and get back because you have just hit him for eternity. O, my friend, you will spend the rest of forever running and hiding. Awesome??!
O - Oh!
N - What about the grown ups? They will all want to spend tons of money that day on everything in the world just so that they can really really enjoy themselves. But everything is going to be closed, no? The movie halls, the strip-bars, everyplace! Because no one will fancy being a stripping stripper forever, or the guy that sells popcorn down at the theatre.
O - AND, evil countries will probably spend the one year time, just plotting war. And then on that day missiles will fly around everywhere. And there you have it a never ending day of death and destruction.
N - Man. I tell you, such a machine is the worst idea ever. L, don't make one! The only good way to use it would be if we all slept through the day or watched TV. But that would be B-O-R-I-N-G!
M - I guess so.
L - Hmm. Damn!
M - Say, Robot-Slaves it is then?
N - Yes, of course. Totally.
L - Sometimes, these ideas bug me no end. I hope when I grow older I don't get them.
O - Stop reading about space-time being one forever defined loaf of bread. That just spoils everything.
N - I know.
L - Okay.
L, M, N, O then went about discussing the pros and cons of building a machine that gave us the ability to travel through time. A time-machine basically.
Kids!
(This is not a poem.)
L - What would be best, you know?
O - What?
N - Robot-Slaves?
M - No! A machine that allows us, the whole world, to be caught in a single-day loop!
L - YES!!
N - Okay, that would be AWESOME.
O - Ya. What day will it be?
L - It's like this...
M - So we make this thing, and then we tell everyone a year in advance. So that we can all be prepared. And on that day we can all do brilliant things for 24 hours and then that's it.
L - Yes, we can eat ice-cream, the grown ups can have all their sex, no one will work, everyone will have a day full of pure fun.
M - And then we do that everyday, forever.
L - And no one will get bored, because every time we start afresh. So it will be like having this great experience for the first time ever.
O - I wont even go to school.
M - Of course you wont silly, we will be the same age forever. We won't need stupid school.
N - But..
L - What?
N - Don't you think this plan is flawed?
M - No?
N - Look, so you will announce it to the world a year in advance that, a particular day, will now be the ONE particular day forever. Very nice. Thank you! Enter the human mind. Dude? Everyone is going to want to have the BEST possible day ever. O, wont you want to slap that bully from school on that day?
O - Well, yes!
N - Let us imagine for a while that you do! Now the awful bully is going to try and hunt you down and get back because you have just hit him for eternity. O, my friend, you will spend the rest of forever running and hiding. Awesome??!
O - Oh!
N - What about the grown ups? They will all want to spend tons of money that day on everything in the world just so that they can really really enjoy themselves. But everything is going to be closed, no? The movie halls, the strip-bars, everyplace! Because no one will fancy being a stripping stripper forever, or the guy that sells popcorn down at the theatre.
O - AND, evil countries will probably spend the one year time, just plotting war. And then on that day missiles will fly around everywhere. And there you have it a never ending day of death and destruction.
N - Man. I tell you, such a machine is the worst idea ever. L, don't make one! The only good way to use it would be if we all slept through the day or watched TV. But that would be B-O-R-I-N-G!
M - I guess so.
L - Hmm. Damn!
M - Say, Robot-Slaves it is then?
N - Yes, of course. Totally.
L - Sometimes, these ideas bug me no end. I hope when I grow older I don't get them.
O - Stop reading about space-time being one forever defined loaf of bread. That just spoils everything.
N - I know.
L - Okay.
L, M, N, O then went about discussing the pros and cons of building a machine that gave us the ability to travel through time. A time-machine basically.
Kids!
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