Daily Dialogue — April 19, 2019

“Look there, at that woman. My God, just look at her. Affecting everyone around her, so obvious, so bourgeois, so boring. But wait… Watch — you see, I have sent her dessert, a very special dessert. I wrote it myself. It starts so simply, each line of the program creating a new effect, just like poetry. First, a rush… heat… her heart flutters. You can see it, Neo, yes? [the woman is looking increasingly distressed] Could it be the wine? No. What is it then, what is the reason? And soon it does not matter, soon the why and the reason are gone, and all that matters is the feeling itself. [the code view shows her putting her hands in her lap as an explosion happens in her groin; she quickly leaves her table] This is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it, we fight to deny it, but it is of course pretense, it is a lie. Beneath our poised appearance, the truth is we are completely out of control. Causality. There is no escape from it, we are forever slaves to it.”

— The Matrix Reloaded (2003), written by Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Dessert.

Trivia: GM donated three hundred cars for use in the production of the movie. All three hundred were wrecked by the end.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A monologue about causality and… cake.