forsyth | Daily Drabble

How many levels of meta can one discussion hold? How long before the conversation about the conversation about the conversation is so sprawling and disconnected from whatever was originally the topic of discussion that it collapses under its own metaphorical weight?

This isn't as idle a question as it may seem. In 1983, half of the philosophy department of a major metropolitan university suffered injuries from the fallout when a logical structure collapsed. All because one grad student pointed out the hadn't in fact, brought a pin for any angels to dance on, because nobody even uses pins these days.

(This one didn't even need editing. It ended exactly at 100. Which kinda left me without the room to put in my joke about arguing about superheroes, but I think the ending worked as it is. And damnit, there was a typo still somehow. Mutter mutter. Fixed now.)