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About This Book
Omniscience has one major drawback: it's boring. And God, also known as Alphonse at that time, was bored. Very bored.
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Before the beginning of time there was no such thing as surprise.
By the way, by the "beginning of time," I mean the beginning of this time, the one that we're now busy living and dying and doing things in. There may well have been other times, you understand—there quite likely were, in fact—with their own beginnings and endings, but our time, the one going on right now and the one we are concerned with here, knows nothing of these other possible, earlier sister times, if indeed they existed.
Be that, though, as it may. The point here is that before this time began—this one I'm writing this in right now—there were no surprises.
Nor were there any cars. Nor was there any matter to build cars with, nor energy to mold them, had there been some moldable matter around.
Nor was there any space for roads to drive around on in cars, had there been matter and energy to bring cars about with. Nor, of course, was there any time for them to travel through had there been matter, energy, and space to set their stage.
Before this time, then, the one we're in right now, there wasn't much of anything, anywhere—in fact, there wasn't any where at all. There was just the one: Alphonse.
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Before the beginning of time there was no such thing as surprise.
By the way, by the "beginning of time," I mean the beginning of this time, the one that we're now busy living and dying and doing things in. There may well have been other times, you understand—there quite likely were, in fact—with their own beginnings and endings, but our time, the one going on right now and the one we are concerned with here, knows nothing of these other possible, earlier sister times, if indeed they existed.
Be that, though, as it may. The point here is that before this time began—this one I'm writing this in right now—there were no surprises.
Nor were there any cars. Nor was there any matter to build cars with, nor energy to mold them, had there been some moldable matter around.
Nor was there any space for roads to drive around on in cars, had there been matter and energy to bring cars about with. Nor, of course, was there any time for them to travel through had there been matter, energy, and space to set their stage.
Before this time, then, the one we're in right now, there wasn't much of anything, anywhere—in fact, there wasn't any where at all. There was just the one: Alphonse.
