gappy
Saturday 11th May 2024 2:14pm [Edited]
Oxford
2,696 posts
JONES:Good morning, doctor.
DOC:Ah, Mr Jones, come in. Now, what seems to be the trouble?
JONES:I've just got this pain behind my left eye - like, it's like a headache, but it's kind of...more focused.
DOC:I see. And has it seemed as though your vision is affected?
JONES:No, I can still see fine, it just hurts.
DOC:And when did this seem to start?
JONES:I woke up with it on Tuesday.
DOC: So, it seems as though it's been going on for 5 days?
JONES:What do you mean - it *has* been going for five days.
DOC:You seem a little upset, Mr Jones.
JONES:I don't *seem* anything! I am it. Why don't you believe what I tell you?
DOC:Now Mr Jones, why don't you seem to calm down, and seem to sit back on what seems to be a chair?
JONES:What?
DOC:It appears that there's no point in what I shall refer to as "you" getting upset, which is how I perceive your current state, because it won't help, if anything will help, and if either of us exist in the first place.
JONES:I don't know what's going on.
DOC: Oh, sorry Mr apparent-Jones-so-far-as-I-can-tell-through-my-flawed-senses. I - if we agree for the nonce that there is an I - apologise, or at least I believe I do. My stance is that nothing can be proved (assuming there is such a thing as nothing and that we could prove that anything could be proved).
JONES:What?
DOC:When I - see previous codicil - was apparently studying at what I understood to be university, I won an argument by saying that the other person was wrong, because they couldn't prove that anything existed and that we weren't in the matrix. Or I think I did. So, since then I've just carried on doing the same thing all the time, because it worked so well, brackets none of those words I said might have any meaning brackets and I might not have said them.
JONES:And what about my headache?
DOC:What is a head? What is an ache? See, I win the argument.
JONES:I don't see how we were having an argument!
DOC:There you go, you're getting the hang of it...apparently. You have to admit, it's a good system, don't you think?
JONES:I refute it thus!
SFX:GREAT BIG OLD WILL SMITH-LEVEL SLAP IN THE FACE
DOC: Now that seemed harsh!