Observation

[queex]

If you never lose writing utensils in the detritus on your desk, you are not truly living.

Comments

[makyo]

I read a story once about the celebrated Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton. After he died, his executors discovered plates with the remains of dessicated, half-eaten meals on them, buried amongst the papers on his desk.

[queex]

I've had plates get absorbed into the collective, but never half-eaten meals.

I think I should one-up him by losing a small child.

[tomf_]

I can lose a pen on an empty desk.

[purp1e_magic]

Likewise. Does this mean we are more alive than the rest of them? Perhaps superhuman?

[tomf_]

My theory was that if I lose enough pens, the place where they go will eventually get full, and burst, freeing enough pens to supply the worlds writing implement needs for several hundred years.

It's a bad plan, because I just found my pen behind my ear.