I wish I had a button, you know?

Nope.

Like a big STOP button, for the world.

You mean, like a button?

Yeah, and I could hit it and the whole world would just stop for a few minutes.

Like that book! The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything!

Well, yeah! But not exactly at all, no.

Oh, that clears it right up. You want a button that freezes time, right?

No, I mean yeah, but no. I want everyone to know they’ve been stopped. So they can think.

Like, about what they’ve done?

Yeah! A time Out button for the world. Go to your corners and think about what you’ve all done! Click!

And you just want this in a button.

Probably shiny and red, yes.

Of course. But why should you get it?

Why not? I’m reasonably sane.

This conversation not withstanding?

Hey!

No, but wouldn’t people who disagree with you all want their own button to make you think about why you’re wrong?

Well, I guess, yeah.

And then everyone would have a button. And we would all stop and never do anything again.

I don’t think…

No, come on, isn’t that what would happen? Everyone would be hitting the button in a game to one-up each other and make everyone else think about why they hit the button.

Well, maybe.

And then where does it end?

Who says it should?

Uhm?

If we’re all such idiots we can’t even agree, somehow, to eventually let life go on, maybe we should be just frozen, helpless and left to think about why.

Uh huh. And you believe this?

Maybe!

You just want a shiny red button to make people go to the corner.

Well… yeah!

And that’s why you can’t have one.

Awww, man!

Yup.