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[queenofstripes]

What a fool I was. Meredith is clearly a genius. Her phone calls, dismissed at the time as mere nuisance, make perfect sense now that Russell's Sieve was applied. How blind I was. Base nine -- elementary base nine -- was the key. Why, why didn't I count their fingers first?! Poor, misunderstood Meredith! I must go to her. But how can one build a

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[ex_n]

Paper Mache. It's sheer, child-like brilliance.

[shatterstripes]

One may not. But the parking tickets, if accumulated long enough, can actually bend the court system into a vortex of madness - if properly harnessed, this legal flurry could send you across the galaxies.

[cobaltie]

"The great starship Bureaucracy, while making huge leaps in space and time due to a new drive system, was always so unwelcome when it arrived, not to mention burying so many planets in paperwork so massive they immediately collapsed into singularities, that it was announced a failure. It's still waiting to be decomissioned, as the required paperwork is being filed in googliplicate in several major star systems."

[squnq]

I suddenly sit here pondering a future society where all the lawyers formed their own official religion, then wandered about the universe sending prophets and missionaries bearing contracts and subpoenas to the uneducated masses, leaving nothing but interplanetary wars over semantics in their wake.

[anonymous]

we are humbled and amused. contact has finally begun/awoken. we had thought your universe to be inaccessible, but knowing now only misguided as to choice of medium.

more to follow.

-M