The far future. Firokami - a diamond City-State, it is not a city of equality - the law of the jungle, which the tiny capitalists of the world liked to whine about, works here ruthlessly, just as it should be in the jungle. But this City is very rich and progressive. The science here is very developed. On international science conference was started scientific argue about theology. Then the City gave to Science Reseach Institute to find the High Reason. Scientists do an experiment and get a response. But from whom?
Genre: FICTION / Science Fiction / Short StoriesAlive Universe. A foolish project, I knew at once that it was foolish. It began when Sofia quitted. The girl from the cafeteria. That day I ordered coffee, as usual, but coffee was awful, then I thought that at Sofia something happened. It appeared, validly, it happened, but at us, but not at it. She quitted, and now... Or perhaps everything began when an inspired optimist Edik Grom sat down for my table. There are such people; they cause envy only with the fact their existing. Just the envy here is multi-coloured, and its colour depends on the person who feels it. Edik was good at everything; he was too clever, — of course, he was, he got his Ph. D. at twenty-two! — to call him an idiot. He lived, as in God's hands. Yes, I am an attendant of science, and such a statement is not scientific. But, eventually, nobody still knows what will be there at the end of these scientific research, whether science will prove or disprove the existence of a certain one omnipotent and reasonable personality. And so, this inspired optimist (you imagine that an optimist and moreover inspired?) Edik sat down near me, ordered a coffee, having tried it, right there told that it was magnificent (of course, it was magnificent! For Edik everything is good, delightful and magnificent! And what, probably, especially irritates all — in his opinion about the magnificence of the world Edik was sincere).
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