The Broom of the System
The Broom of the System
““I think I’m too tired to be upset. I don’t know why I’m so tired.”
“Like your brother.”
“Which brother? The one who’s flapped all the time, or the anorexic one who we’ve had to watch go around the bend for years and now just disappears and is maybe dead for all I know? I just want to sleep. Just put your arm ... like that. Thank you.”
“I thought you said the thing with John was that he was so reluctant to be in any way involved with anything’s death that he usually refused to eat, since every ...eating entails a death. That’s not anorexia.”
“It is, sort of, if you think about it.”
“And that he had a horizontal proof of the indisputability of the proposition that one should never kill, for whatever reason.”
“A diagonal proof.”
“Diagonal proof.”
“I guess.”
“He ... want it published, maybe?”
“I doubt he ever wrote it down, since that would involve paper, and so trees, et cetera.”
“Quite a fellow. A certain nobility.”
“I don’t really even know him.MoreLess
“Like your brother.”
“Which brother? The one who’s flapped all the time, or the anorexic one who we’ve had to watch go around the bend for years and now just disappears and is maybe dead for all I know? I just want to sleep. Just put your arm ... like that. Thank you.”
“I thought you said the thing with John was that he was so reluctant to be in any way involved with anything’s death that he usually refused to eat, since every ...eating entails a death. That’s not anorexia.”
“It is, sort of, if you think about it.”
“And that he had a horizontal proof of the indisputability of the proposition that one should never kill, for whatever reason.”
“A diagonal proof.”
“Diagonal proof.”
“I guess.”
“He ... want it published, maybe?”
“I doubt he ever wrote it down, since that would involve paper, and so trees, et cetera.”
“Quite a fellow. A certain nobility.”
“I don’t really even know him.MoreLess
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