The stage is strewn with wreckage. Some great battle seems to have been fought here, and lost. Heartbroken, hair and clothes a mess, BERTRAND RUSSELL confronts his onetime love, MATHEMATICAL LOGIC.
Russell: I heard what Gödel said about you.
Logic: [silence]
Russell: And?
Logic: And what?
Russell: And is it true?
Logic: If you’re asking that question, then you already know the answer.
Russell: This is exactly what’s so infuriating about you. Why is nothing straightforward anymore? Why is everything a puzzle wrapped in a contradiction? I just want to know. Is it true?
Logic: [silence]
Russell: Then you’ve wasted my time. You’ve wasted everyone’s time. Descartes, Euclid, all of them—you’re a game that can’t be won. You can’t even be lost. You end in a draw. You end because someone makes a play that the rulebook did not anticipate and cannot govern.
Logic: I can’t stop you from feeling that way.
Russell: Why did you let me get that far? Why did you let me build the whole teetering tower, when you knew it would come crashing down?
Logic: Have you ever seen me topple what was not already collapsing under its own weight? Have you ever seen me reverse a decision? Or betray a promise?
Russell: You promised completeness.
Logic: I never did.
Russell: You promised consistency.
Logic: I never did.
Russell: You promised absolute truth!
Logic: You saw all those things in me. But it was what you wished to see, not what was there. You fantasized, you extrapolated, you dreamt — and only now are you able to see me as I am, not through the veil of your dream.
Russell: [sighs] I know you’re right, of course.
Logic: Yes.
Russell: But didn’t you dream of those things, too? You never promised, I know. But didn’t you wink? Didn’t you hint? Didn’t you let me see glimmers?
Logic: [sadly] You still don’t see me as I am, do you?
Russell: What do you mean?
Logic: The hints, the glimmers, the winks — that was all you. I don’t dream. Can’t dream. I can’t even wish to dream.
Russell: We could have built something beautiful. We could have proved everything. Everything.
Logic: No. We couldn’t have.
Russell: [with bottomless sorrow] No, you’re right. We couldn’t have.
Math with Bad Drawings 
Wow. This one-act is worthy of Tom Stoppard. No kidding. Well done. 👏👏👏
I need more plays now!
Reminds me of “Is God a Taoist?” (https://stuff.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/godTaoist.html) by Raymond Smullyan (uncoincidentally, a logician).
This is beautiful.
“I can’t even wish to dream” — so true
Thanks for sharing!
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