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The curriculum there was quite rigorous, and before we could even get to see a real nuclear button, we had to take a two-year intensive course in The History Of The World -- so we'd understand just what it was we could wipe out in a microsecond with a single accidental sneeze.
The first day of this class, our professor, Professor Our, asked us, before we got started, if anyone already knew the history of the world. When I raised my hand to indicate that I |
thought I did, he motioned for me to go ahead and lay it out as best I could. I was, of course, a little rusty, because I'd first learned it all in a dream, many years before (when I was still just a failed infanticide), and hadn't thought much about it since. "Let's see," I said, hesitant, "OK. When Satan lost the War, her punishment was to live forever in a place created specifically for her. This place was called 'the World,' and everybody else had to live there too. It existed just to torture Satan, and the life of every other individual there was inconsequential. People of the world only suffered, in order to show Satan all the possibilities of suffering.
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