On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

[featherynscale]

Notes from 4 a.m. Sunday morning...

It's odd the things that comfort - the second law says that the universe tends toward disorder. Entropy, dissolution are the end result of everything. So you don't have to worry about whether or not something will fall apart. You can say with certainty that it will, the only question is when.

All things are transitory - there is nothing to fear. Fear itself is transitory, as we learned from Dune - I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past, I will turn my inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
But not for long.

Immanentize the eschaton? Check.
Bring on the Kali Yuga? Check.
End of the world as we know it? Check. And I feel fine.

Comments

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Have you ever read Stoppard's Arcadia? It's about sex, death, and literature -- and entropy! Not a long play; it'd take maybe a couple of hours to read once, but definitely rewards several rereadings. I have a copy if you're interested.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I haven't, but it sounds like just my sort of game. I'd love to borrow it sometime.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of going to the trance tonight -- if you (or someone from EHQ) are going to be there I can bring it.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I won't be, but kittenpants will. I'm not sure it's physically possible to have a Gaia event without at least one of the Trinity present. At least not this year. We're working on that for next year. Maybe taking a week off every once in a while... *sigh*

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

Tom Stoppard is one of my favorites! A friend of ours (our eldest offspring's godmother, actually) was in a production of it. One of my favorite lines is when the mother (a very formidable dame) invites the protagonist up to her room late at night. The command is ended with the line, "oh, and bring a book." Happy theatre geek.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

I don't think I could pick a favorite line, or even a favorite scene. I just love how the scenes interweave, how little things mentioned in passing show up again several scenes later. And how we get to see what actually happened compared with what the modern folks think happened. It should be required reading for all classicists and archaeologists, IMNSHO.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Bwa. Ha ha. I am currently on page 36 of said Arcadia and it has been the most entertaining 36 pages of a play that I have ever read. Thank you for being so kind as to loan it to me.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Anytime, darlin'. I love making new Stoppard fans.