THE GOOD WORD ACCORDING TO · THE ULTRA-HARRIER
VINNIE
An illusion in the voidThe voice of John the Beadle
Chapter 2
Skipping ahead a few hundred million years,
2jIt turned out that the void got pretty full of stars and planets and other stellar material,
3Unless it was all an illusion,
4Until there was something that regarded itself as kintelligent life on lone of the planets,
5Unless this was also an illusion,
6mEven if it would be pretty hard to tell for sure,
7Because the something that regarded itself as intelligent life was pretty sure that it existed,
8And had existed for maybe a million years,
9aAnd had actually written down some stuff about what had happened in the last few thousand years,
10bThus proving that it was there,
11And incredibly important,
12Which is probably not the case,
13And explains why they needed some help,
14Which they pretty much got,
15Starting with a unit of presumptively intelligent life called John,
16Which looked at the cvoid for quite a while,
17dAnd figured out that there’s not enough information available about any of it,
18eWhich means you can’t really believe in anything,
19Not even the fI Ching,
20Or Jehovah,
21Or Buddha,
22Or any of the other stuff that’s supposed to be believable.
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