CHRONO-SYNCLASTIC INFUDIBULA-Just imagine that your Daddy is the smartest man who ever lived on Earth,and he knows everything there is to find out,and he is exactly right about everything,and he can prove he is right about everything.Now imagine another little kid on some nice world a million light years away,and that little kid's Daddy is the smartest man who ever lived on that nice world so far away.And he is just as smart and just as right as your Dad.Both Daddies are smart and both Daddies are right.
Only if they ever met each other they would get into a terrible argument ,because they wouldn't agree on anything.Now,you can say that your Daddy is right and the other little kid's Daddy is wrong,but the Universe is an awfully big place.There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
The reason both Daddies can be right and still get into terrrible fights is because there are so many different ways of being right.There are places in the Universe,though,where each Daddy could finally catch on to what the other Daddy was talking about.These places are where all the different kinds of truths fit together as nicely as the parts in your Daddy's solar watch.We call these places chrono-synclastic infudibula.
Kurt Vonnegut,The sirens of Titan, 1959
The reason both Daddies can be right and still get into terrrible fights is because there are so many different ways of being right.There are places in the Universe,though,where each Daddy could finally catch on to what the other Daddy was talking about.These places are where all the different kinds of truths fit together as nicely as the parts in your Daddy's solar watch.We call these places chrono-synclastic infudibula.
Kurt Vonnegut,The sirens of Titan, 1959
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