The Meeting and What It Represents as a Fraction of Remaining Solar Time

by Leonid Tchah

The meeting began at two o'clock. By two-oh-four I had established, to a reasonable approximation, that human beings have collectively spent somewhere in the region of 10²⁰ minutes in meetings, which is a number so large it briefly stopped functioning as a number and became instead a kind of weather. I set this aside and returned to the present meeting, which was about a process. Specifically, it was about whether the process was working. No one present had a confident answer to this question, which was, I noted, itself a kind of answer, though not the kind anyone seemed prepared to file.

By two-eleven I had moved to the second calculation, which concerned the sun.