serious inquiries only

[sotenbori]

Hey if you've got kids, or you are a kid, or you just really like dolls, I've got a ton of doll furniture that needs a good home. It's lightly used but I really don't think dolls care about that stuff. They make this crap way better than they did back in my day.

Comments

[sotenbori]

I think it's a lesson in things we should just fucking never talk about again

[originallutece]

Oh, do we have a list now? What else had made it?

[sotenbori]

If we're making a list, that's the first thing
Congratulations to alcohol in unmentionable places for being the first thing on the We Don't Talk About This list

[originallutece]

I should call that "what alcohol does to unmentionable places", but it's your list, not mine.

[sotenbori]

no, see, you're still talking about it
you're breaking the first rule

[originallutece]

Nonsense. The rules aren't set in place until we finish the list.

[sotenbori]

Well add something to it then

[originallutece]

The fact we were all five inches tall for nearly a week.

[sotenbori]

Its too late for that - that's the entire point of this post

[originallutece]

Nonsense. I for one am fully planning on forgetting any of this ever happened. Besides, you hardly specified why you were selling the doll furniture in the initial post.

[sotenbori]

Guess you got me there.

But your classes were fucking wild, Professor. How did science attempt to explain all of that shit?

[originallutece]

By being irritated at the sheer inexplicability of it. It shouldn't have happened at all, and though I've got plenty of cell samples, I can't yet explain how it happened.

[sotenbori]

Well if that's not a great indication that everything's fucked

[originallutece]

To say the least. I'd feel better if there was at least some scientific basis in all of them, but there's nothing.

[sotenbori]

There's gotta be
We probably just don't have a way to describe it yet
Like
People used to think the world was flat, right? Science thought that.

[originallutece]

Yes, but I'm not some ordinary scientist. I ought to be able to at least begin to understand things by now.

[sotenbori]

What do you mean?

[originallutece]

I mean

Look. You're quite right when you say that perhaps it's something too advanced for us to understand; that's a perfectly logical conclusion. But I am brilliant, and the fact that I can't make any sense of what's happening is

It's inexplicable. I should be able to at least vaguely understand the merest sliver of it.

[sotenbori]

Hey
You do understand a sliver of it
Understanding what didn't cause it is important, too
For the process

1/2

[originallutece]

Are you

[originallutece]

[She pauses for a long few seconds, then:]

No. You're being genuine, aren't you?

[sotenbori]

Yeah??
I'd tell it to you straight if I thought you were doing something stupid.

[originallutece]

I'm not used to someone handing out compliments so freely. But thank you. You're not wrong: discovering what this isn't is just as vital a process.

[sotenbori]

People are stupid sometimes.

You should ask around on Retrospec - find the other science people and put your heads together

[originallutece]

I plan on it, actually, once I get a bit more data together.

[Rosalind stares at her computer for a few more seconds, hesitates, and then:]

Thank you.