“Heh, heh, that’s too bad. You were just getting to the good part. The Professor could really make me laugh, the way he’d set out in all seriousness things that would shock normal people. What the old man was saying, basically, is that ideas are life forms, with energy of their own.”
“Huh? You mean, the thoughts in our heads can turn into living beings?”
“That’s about the size of it.”
“Well, that’s a rather extreme suggestion.”
“It is indeed, but similar ideas have been propounded since before the time of Christ. I suppose you could just look at it as a different theory of life.”