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Conversations with the Beast

Let me paint a picture for you.....its 3am...the lab is silent except for the hum of analysers and some soft background music, Portishead or Delerium. I am sitting at my desk, finishing up my paperwork for the evening. The Beast is sitting next to me, fiddling with something or the other (He keeps himself entertained in the strangest of ways).

"Wolfman", he says to me, "I have a theory".

I could tell it was 3am without even checking my watch. It's like a switch goes off in his mind. His theory was bound to be mindblowing. I just honestly prayed that it was not quantum physics again. The last time we spoke of that, I had a headache for a week.

"What is anti-gravity", he asked me. Anti-gravity? Come on!
"If the earth stopped rotating and then rotated in the opposite direction, would we all start floating?"
Not so much a theory than a question, but we won't argue semantics.

He then proceeds to tell me that basically anti-gravity cannot exist. Anti-matter can be created, but anti-gravity is a non-sequitur. Do not be confused between countering the gravitational force by an opposing force and anti-gravity.

It amazes me how this man's mind works.

I have been trying to recall all the conversations we've had throughout the last 7 years that I've known him at 3am in the morning, but only a few come to mind really. As I've mentioned, the quantum physics just hurt. I enjoyed the discussion about lost and doomed civilisations i.e. The Incas, Aztecs, Easter Islanders. His total absorption into the works of Joseph Mengele and the Nazi's left me slightly ill, but the criminal profiling regarding serial killers was totally fascinating.

I envy him really. I struggle with certain subjects, I find them morally repugnant and physically reprehensible. He, on the other hand, takes each subject afresh. He looks at it from all angles, investigates it from all sides and arguements and then makes up his mind whether he can deal with it or not.

Could you imagine if we were all that open-minded?