Okay. I’m in a lot of trouble here. I’ve got to try and get ahead of this. Maybe I can throw him off balance. “So you ARE a demon. But you are known as either a saint, or a spirit or a jolly old elf. Isn’t that a little bit like blasphemy? Doesn’t it clash with the deity of this universe?” Yeah… I’ve got him now. Or at least I’ve bought some breathing room. “Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho…. I can see why Violet likes you. Allow me to explain some things you wouldn’t know. First, when a deity creates a universe like this one, they create it in its entirety, from first moment to last gasp, and all possibilities are planned to the final detail. It can, and does, progress along an infinite number of intersecting and parallel time lines. That’s what I meant about sideways time. It’s like a pot thrown on a wheel. It contains a known volume of probability. They have nothing to do with it after it is complete. From then on, it just is. You determine where you are in that volume of probability. It’s like a group consensus of what is real. I can move sideways, like a crab, where you can only move forward, leaning toward a preferred direction. You want to move toward where there are no surveillance pickles, I take it?”
Okay. I’m in a lot of trouble here. I’ve got to try and get ahead of this. Maybe I can throw him off balance. “So you ARE a demon. But you are known as either a saint, or a spirit or a jolly old elf. Isn’t that a little bit like blasphemy? Doesn’t it clash with the deity of this universe?” Yeah… I’ve got him now. Or at least I’ve bought some breathing room. “Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho…. I can see why Violet likes you. Allow me to explain some things you wouldn’t know. First, when a deity creates a universe like this one, they create it in its entirety, from first moment to last gasp, and all possibilities are planned to the final detail. It can, and does, progress along an infinite number of intersecting and parallel time lines. That’s what I meant about sideways time. It’s like a pot thrown on a wheel. It contains a known volume of probability. They have nothing to do with it after it is complete. From then on, it just is. You determine where you are in that volume of probability. It’s like a group consensus of what is real. I can move sideways, like a crab, where you can only move forward, leaning toward a preferred direction. You want to move toward where there are no surveillance pickles, I take it?”