Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

There was a long pause, finally Thom said, "I've beendevoting a lot of time to it. We are in a position to verifysome important questions in quantum physics out here. We'vereceived data on advances in instrumentation and because wehave a fabricator we can build that instrumentation. Becausewe are still in deep space, we can perform the experimentsthat they cannot in the realm of Sol.""And that is much more interesting to you than playingpersonifications with your wife?" Arthur asked."Yes, your holiness.""I see," the archbishop said. "I must tell you I am not aman of science and to my ears you lapsed into Swahili for amoment there, while you told me about what you find moreinteresting than your wife." There was another long pause. "Ithink your knowledge of the implementation of heaven hasjaded you. You are too conscious that you are not flesh.""Yes I am.""It could be that the quality of our simulation is not highenough.""It's fine," Thom said, "it is an intellectual thing, not asensory thing. The rendering of my wife's body, the dinner,the candlelight, the music, the smells of the food, herperfume and her body itself was all fine, at least as good asmy mortal senses could ever perceive. That does not stop mefrom knowing that our love can never produce a child, a newsoul for our nation and church. Without that, it is mutualmasturbation is it not? I've read enough of the Bible to know168