“Does there? People desperately look for patterns. If there aren’t any, the mind invents them. Do you think a frog wonders if there’s a point? It needs to eat, it needs a safe place to stay, and it needs to mate. Somewhere along the line that all stops happening and the frog dies. End of story.”
“If it’s all pointless, why should I… why should anybody bother doing anything?”
Polly shrugged. “I can only answer for me, not for anyone else. Remember entropy?”
“Uh, it has to do with those three laws, right?”
“Basically, it’s the tendency of the universe to run down. The more entropy, the faster the deterioration. I believe entropy’s the enemy, and we’re here to fight it.”
“So fighting entropy is the point.”
Polly sighed. “No. Fighting entropy is what I choose to do. Other people have oth
