Six Sentence Story: Reason, Reason Everywhere Without a Beating Heart

Joe was a mathematician.

Among his many skills he could tell you which infinity was bigger than the other. If you told him that you doubted such a skill had much value, he’d entertain you for a longer period of time than your patience could tolerate with a sequence of axioms, lemmas and theorems that justified the value of his results.

However, as Joe approached the end of his life the infinite number of infinities, lined up like idols starving for sacrifices, that used to spice his life gave way to an unexpected and undeserved heart of flesh that seemed as if it had just begun to beat out of nowhere. He laughed at all the arguments he used to drill into unwilling ears hoping they might forgive (knowing they had already forgotten) all that he told them.

But, whether they forgave or not, Joe wished that all of them could find the heartfelt joy he now felt, a joy worth far more than any number of dubious infinities.

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Denise offers the word “spice” to be used in this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

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Author: Frank Hubeny

I enjoy walking, poetry and short prose as well as taking pictures with my phone.

31 thoughts on “Six Sentence Story: Reason, Reason Everywhere Without a Beating Heart”

  10. “an unexpected and undeserved heart of flesh that seemed as if it had just begun to beat out of nowhere” — That changes everything, even numberless infinities. Blessings to you, brother. What a great Six.

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