The Final Programme

“You look ahead.”

“I look around. Ahead’s here already.”

“Entropy’s setting in. Or so they say.”

“Why should that be true?”

“It’s Time—it’s all used up.”

“This is metaphysical nonsense!”

“Very likely.”

“Perhaps I should not say so, but it occasionally crosses my mind to wonder why, in all the mystic cosmologies, even in some of the modern so-called parasciences, our own age is always described as the age of chaos and contention. A comment, my logical side argues, on why people turn to mysticism. The past age was always better.”

“Childhood is the happiest time of life except when you’re a child,” said Jerry.

“I understand you. True.”