Midnight Pals: Eureka (Patreon)

Poe: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of eurekaPoe: this is going to be a little different from my usual stuffPoe: it's actually a scientific meditation on the nature of the universeBarker: is this one of those things where you have to be high to get itBarker: cuz if it is, i want to know now

Poe: no! it's not just some ridiculous navel-gazing drivel!Poe: it's actually a complete system of cosmologyPoe: arrived at via facts and logicPoe: and my patented system of ratiocination (tm)Barker: oh for pete's sakeBarker: edgar, stop trying to make ratiocination (tm) happenBarker: it ain't gonna happen!

Poe: ok so before i go any furtherPoe: the first thing that you have to understand is that space time is curvedBarker: oh god this is gonna be a snoozerFitz James O'Brien: no way man i totally get thisBarker: are you high right now

O'Brien: ha haO'Brien: oh manO'Brien: oh man you are tripping me out manO'Brien: have you ever looked at your hand, man?O'Brien: i mean like REALLY looked at your hand?

Poe: so this whole philosophy is based on the premisePoe: "because nothing was, all things are"Barker:King:Koontz:Lovecraft:Poe: oh don't you all give me that starePoe: it makes perfect sense!

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers?Barker: edgar was explaining the philosophy of the universeShelley: is this john barth shitPoe: again with john barth!Poe: no, mary, this is not meta in any wayShelley: ok good cuz i don't fuck with that john barth shitShelley: as I've said on previous occasions

Poe: ok so listenPoe: "because nothing was, all things are"Shelley:Shelley: yeah i don't get itBarker: see? it's gibberishPoe: it's not gibberish!Poe: some people say it's my greatest work!

Poe: some people say that "eureka: a pros poem" is bigger than the discovery of gravity!Shelley: oh yeah? who says that?Poe:Poe: well, for one, i did. just now.

O'Brien: ohh!O'Brien: i get itO'Brien: it makes TOTAL sense!O'Brien: yeah man he's saying that we're all one with the universe, manO'Brien: the important thing is that the universe is EVOLVING, constantly expanding and contractingShelley: ok see THAT makes senseShelley: why didn't you explain it like that, edgar?Poe: