Subject: Re: writers question/time and the meaning of life (no less)
To: erlend@algonet.se (Erlend Loe)

EL> I would like to ask you twelve questions, and I will be immensely grateful
EL> if you answer.
EL> Here are the questions:
EL> 1. Does time exist?

Yes, definetly. But not eternally.


EL> 2. Does the size of the universe scare you?

I would better say that it impress me.


EL> 3. Do you sometimes feel that everything you do is futile because the sun
EL> will be burnt out in five billion years?

No. I would feel that everything I do is futile if nobody asks me that questions.


EL> 4. Do you like to throw a ball against a wall and catch it again?

No.


EL> Do you do it often?

Not at all.


EL> Would you do it more often if you had the time?

It seems to me that you have already had answer to the your first question


EL> 5. If Einstein was alive today, do you think he would be your friend?

I don't think that I would be friend of him.


EL> 6. How is it possible that the past, the present and the future all
EL> exist at the same time?

God knows, but they do!


EL> 7. Do you sometimes wish you didn't know all the things you know, and were
EL> free to run on a beach, careless and ignorant of everything?

Yes, my boy. I wish not to know some things to be free in discovering new ones.


EL> 8. Do you think that the Big Bang was a coincidence?

Surelly. As Jules from Pulp Fiction of Tarantino said after miraculously staing alive: "That was...divine intervention. You know what divine intervention is?"


EL> 9. I did not ask to be born. Neither did-anyone else. The size and complexity of the
EL> universe makes me feel so small and free of responsibility. It makes me feel, that the
EL> only meaningful thing to do is to try and have a good time. Do you understand that
EL> feeling? Do you have it yourself?

Yes. No.
I have a wife and three childs. You like to count. So, verify me: one plus three is four. Four small Universes resposibility of which I always feel.


EL> 10. Do you think that the human brain is capable of thinking an infinite number of thoughts?

No 'cause the number of neurons is limited.


EL> 11. Do you disapprove of television commercials that features animated food,
EL> for instance biscuits that dance and jump into the cheese?

I disapprove television.


EL> 12. Do you sometimes start to laugh because the numbers you are dealing
EL> with are so huge?

No, I'm always a little bit hesitating about accurateness they mesere it .

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