“I do not.” “His memory is compromised,” Lidewij said. “If only my memory would compromise,” Van Houten responded.
“So, our questions,” I repeated. “She uses the royal we,” Peter said to no one in particular. Another sip.
I didn’t know what Scotch tasted like, but if it tasted anything like champagne,
I couldn’t imagine how he could drink so much, so quickly, so early in the morning.
“Are you familiar with Zeno’s tortoise paradox?” he asked me.
“We have questions about what happens to the characters after the end of the book, specifically Anna’s—”
“You wrongly assume that I need to hear your question in order to answer it. You are familiar with the philosopher Zeno?”
I shook my head vaguely.
“Alas. Zeno was a pre-Socratic philosopher who is said to have discovered forty paradoxes within the worldview put forth by Parmenides—
surely you know Parmenides,” he said, and I nodded that I knew Parmenides, although I did not.
“Thank God,” he said. “Zeno professionally specialized in revealing the inaccuracies and oversimplifications of Parmenides,
which wasn’t difficult, since Parmenides was spectacularly wrong everywhere and always.
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