Meme Sects

It was a dark and stormy night. Fred Ranck (Ph.D., Mathematics) walked briskly out of the set theory conference in the "Mediterranean" room of the big uptown hotel, and hurried down the corridor, clutching his Power-Point slides and Jolt cola. Susan Tyne (Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology; Masters degree, Philosophy) wandered slowly out of the meme propagation seminar in the "Aegean" room of the same hotel, balancing her 84 index-carded memes and Starbucks coffee.

She paused at the corner, her eyes absently noting the wave-like patterns of the corridor lights on the long expanse of blue-green carpet, deep in thought about memes and genes. He barreled around the corner. Lighting flashed, thunder bashed. Researchers crashed, coffee and cola splashed. Slides and cards were mashed in a heap on the floor.

"You got memes and coffee on my set unification presentation!", yelped the mathematician.

"You got set theory and cola in my memes!", exclaimed the philosopher-biologist.

They looked down. The pile wriggled and writhed. Suddenly what looked like a large, light-brown, origami centipede slithered from under the papers.

"Wh-What are you?", gulped Dr. Fred Ranck.

"I am a meme-set", said the creature, matter-of-factly.

"Wh-What do you want?", stammered Dr. Susan Tyne.

"I want to find a meme-set of the opposite gender", chuckled the meme-set.

"Wh-Why?", mumbled Drs. F. Ranck and S. Tyne together.

"Why do you think?", chortled the meme-set. "I'll give you a hint: I am looking forward to a lot more than small talk."

See MemesShmemes, PatternsAsMemes, SelfReplicatingMemeSystems

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