Play 282: Hyperscene
CHARACTERS
VINCENT, 17
DAVID, 17
DAVID
What’re you working on?
VINCENT
Math.
DAVID
Cool.
(Beat.)
What class are you in?
VINCENT
Non-Euclidean Geometry.
DAVID
That sounds pretty insane.
VINCENT
Let’s put it this way, here’s the last answer I came up with: We could hypothesize that we’re living on the hypersurface of a Klein hyperbottle in five-dimensional space.
(Beat.)
DAVID
You just made that up.
VINCENT
I didn’t.
DAVID
So that all actually makes sense?
VINCENT
Yeah.
DAVID
But that’s not the actual answer, is it?
VINCENT
It is.
DAVID
You sure?
VINCENT
Yeah, I’m pretty sure.
(Beat.)
DAVID
A five dimensional hyperbottle—
VINCENT
The hypersurface of a Klein hyperbottle in five-dimensional space.
(Beat.)
DAVID
You’re seriously not fucking with me?
VINCENT
Not at all.
(Beat.)
(David laughs.)
DAVID
What’s the answer to the next question?
VINCENT
Honestly?
DAVID
Is it even more insane?
VINCENT
I have no idea what the answer is.
DAVID
Oh.
(Beat.)
VINCENT
If I did, I’m sure it would be though.
DAVID
I’ll take your word for it.
(Blackout.)
posted by Ben Rosbrow @ 10:39 PM
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1 Comments:
I want to know what that means so badly...
Ah well, I'll get to it in college.
Anyways, sorry for abandoning you earlier. I got a phone call and then I really had to finish my math homework. But I had actually already read that piece before you gave me the link. It is indeed pretty cool and I can definitely see it being very fun to stage. I'm going look through some more of your stuff and pull anything that catches my eye.
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