But very slowly. I mean, it takes our solar system like two hundred twenty-five million Earth years to orbit the galaxy.”
I asked him if the spirals of the galaxy were infinite, and he said no, and then he asked about my spirals.
I told him about this mathematician Kurt Gödel, who had this really bad fear of being poisoned,
so much so that he couldn’t bring himself to eat food unless it was prepared by his wife.
And then one day his wife got sick and had to go into the hospital, so Gödel stopped eating.
I told Davis how even though Gödel must’ve known that starvation was a greater risk than poisoning,
he just couldn’t eat, and so he starved to death. At seventy-one.
He cohabitated with the demon for seventy-one years, and then it got him in the end.
When I’d finished the story, he asked, “Do you worry that will happen to you?”
And I said, “It’s so weird, to know you’re crazy and not be able to do anything about it, you know?
It’s not like you believe yourself to be normal. You know there is a problem.
But you can’t figure a way through to fixing it. Because you can’t be sure, you know?
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