In the beginning

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In the beginning, it was dark.

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What was dark?

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The darkness. It was very dark. The darkness was everywhere. It stretched onwards and onwards forever into the darkness. Imagine giant curtains made of black satin, immense, jet black curtains, and you are moving through the curtains. You part the curtains and move through them, to find more curtains.

Like drapery.

Yes.

Black drapery.

Yes.

Got it.

You keep moving, parting one set of black curtains...

Drapes.

Parting one set of black drapes after another... hold on.

What is it?

Who said that?

Who said what?

That, right there.

Where?

What do you mean where, there's where.

Where's there?

Nevermind. I'll start over.

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In the beginning, it was dark. The darkness was...no seriously, who the hell are you?

Me?

Of course you. Who else?

There's somebody else?

Of course not.

That's what I thought.

Then why did you ask?

Ask what?

Once more. Who are you?

I'm Bill.

At last, an answer. I'm Bill too.

Two Bills.

Exactly.

That could get confusing. How about you call me Ed?

Why Ed?

Short.

Short for what?

I don't know, we haven't gotten that far yet.

I don't think we've gotten anywhere, Ed.

We must have gotten somewhere, Bill.

Oh, really? What do you see up ahead?

Drapes.

Yeah, drapes. We're going in circles. Around and around.

So what's the problem?

What's the problem? The problem is we're not getting anywhere.

I'll grant that, but why is that a problem, Bill?

Well, it's a problem for me.

I see that.

And it should be a problem for you. Do you like doing nothing, getting nowhere?

I guess I don't think about it that way.

Well I do. I think about it all the time. It's all I think about.

Try and think about something else.

There's something else?

Um, no, I don't think so.

That's my point. Now where was I?

Where were we.