Chapter 25
There are of course many problems connected with life, of which
some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why do they
die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time
wearing digital watches?
Many many millions of years ago a race of hyperintelligent pan-
dimensional beings (whose physical manifestation in their own
pan-dimensional universe is not dissimilar to our own) got so fed
up with the constant bickering about the meaning of life which
us