Whatever can be spoken
If you’re a hip cosmologist you believe that every possible universe exists, but then if you were really hip, wouldn’t you have realised that it’s all been said by Parmenides well over 2000 years before? “Whatever can be spoken or thought of necessarily is, since it is possible for it to be, but it is not possible for nothing to be” [Parmenides]. Maybe cosmologists should read more philosophy. Or Ecclesiastes (though not the rest of the Bible). “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun” [Ecclesiastes 1:8-10]. And you know what? Good old King Solomon even beat Parmenides to it by 500-odd years. (The Christians out there will be relieved, I guess). Bec will be happy to know that even our struggle for originality is not original. So like, keep writing that Mills and Boon—at least that way you know it’s not going to be anything new