Thousand: Seven Hundred Thirty-Eight

I must be enlightened. When you have access to every alternate universe in which the laws of physics are roughly similar (and there are so many, you just don’t want to know), you can get to feeling smug about it. Like you know all there is to know. Then you get bored. Isn’t there something else to know? Then you realize you’re bored because you can’t tell one universe from another. It takes a billion working together to have simple thoughts. And a billion on billion to get bored. Concentrate on one universe, or a handful, maybe. Try to get