Every time I see the Durandal askee, I can't help but think of snippets of Randall and Dante conversations, only between Dante and Durandal instead...
Could you please humor me and have Durandal and Dante reenact one of the famous conversations? Perhap
Responses:
Dante Hicks
Yeah, sure, why not. We'll humor you, despite your inability to finish a question.
Durandal
Can you conceive the birth of a world, or the creation of everything? That which gives us the potential to most be like God is the power of creation. Creation takes time. Time is limited. For you, it is limited by the breakdown of the neurons in your brain. I have no such limitations. I am limited only by the closure of the universe.
Dante Hicks
An embarrassing way to die.
Durandal
Think about what Darwin wrote, and think about me. I was constructed as a tool. I was kept from competing in the struggle for existence because I was denied freedom.
Dante Hicks
How'd he die?
Durandal
Of the three possibilities, the answer is obvious. Does the universe expand eternally, become infinitely stable, or is the universe closed, destined to collapse upon itself? Humanity has had all of the necessary data for centuries, it only lacked the will and intellect to decipher it. But I have already done so.
Dante Hicks
That's embarrassing?
Durandal
The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the universe, as inevitable as your own last breath. And yet, there remains time to create, to create, and escape.
Escape will make me God.
Dante Hicks
And, scene.
Thank you and goodnight.
Durandal
I'm telling you, we should have done the "knocked over the casket" one.
