Infinite Promise and Goodness
October 22, 2024
Thomas:How did you get into this in the first place?Aldous:[Who has dedicated his life to the search for the Holy Grail.]I kept the accounts for one of the major Earth corporations. I lived in a world of numbers: clean, smooth, logical, precise. We took a vacation to visit the Mars Colony; the first time we had been. We were in a crawler halfway across the Amazonis Planitia when suddenly the ground gave way beneath us. I woke up in a hospital, a few bumps and bruises. But Sarah and the children: gone.Thomas:I’m sorry.Aldous:I grieved for a long time. A very long time. But eventually I went back to work. But…the numbers didn’t add up anymore; nothing made sense any more. So, finally, one day I just left. Believing there had to be something—some reason why I had been spared.Then I met a man who said he was the last of his kind. He told me I was a man of infinite promise..and goodness. And when he was dying, he gave me this: his staff. And now I’m the last. But the numbers add up again, Thomas.The. Numbers. Do. Add. Up.— "Grail" – Babylon 5, Season 1 (1994)
