Chapter III: School's Out (Of its Mind)I hit the ground. All goes dark once more. My head hurts. It is the only thing that appears to have hit the ground. My eyes open. There, in front of me, is... another person - sitting at the same desk as me. I lift my head up and look around. Memories begin to come flooding back, and suddenly everything makes sense – or rather, loses all sense of meaning that I may have found before. I am Wilson McRaddish, student at the Royal College of Randomnity, est. 31st September 2010, a date that never actually existed but could be proven historically, mathematically and philosophically, and nobody could be bothered arguing about all those things at once, so they generally forgot about that fact to whatever extent possible. With my head removed from the ever-growing dent in the desk, my pencil rolls slowly away from me, before falling off the edge. The clatter of the wood hitting the durable bald-eagle hair floor is deafening.
“Now, let’s turn that sixteen hundred Jan’s of agreement into Rachimetric energy. What do we have then, Ximphly?” he continues, looking to a tall, blue-haired girl in front of me, who is dancing the Physics dance in an inversely correlated manner to that which the lecturer had momentarily stated fifteen thousand years later and yet in the same instant as this one.
“Now, class. I trust everybody did the homework I will issue tomorrow?”
“Thank you very much, I will gladly accept this award for giraffe fighting from the comb union of Belgium.” He begins once more, and then levitates a sheep, on which he plays several classical orchestras and multiple CD’s simultaneously. The entire class does the conga around a small wooden horse and coughs quietly, not wanting to spoil the moment. My pencil rolls off the desk once more, floats in the air for twelve Jan’s of instants, and begins to grow hair before joining a band of hippie rebels devoted to the cause of premature baldness. Many years later I found that it had begun an organisation known as WHSmith, shortly before it was sued by the actual WHSmith for six quadrillion Jan’s of money, which I gladly provided through my professional part-time belly-dancing service. The bell goes – at 13.62am – as it had never done before, of course. This causes a large screen to walk across the front of the class, wipe a cardboard cutout down with lemon juice, and then jump out of the window around seven times a second until it gets bored of this and spontaneously combusts in a manner not unlike a fountain composed of much cheese and tomato pizza, without the pizza. Then, the Euro drops to the worth of around fifteen rupees in a small village in India, and the class begins to leave, randomly. One jumps out of a window that didn’t exist, another climbs up a ladder into an upside-down couch that had appeared, before saying the words “Rachii glimpmorph?” and vanishing in a plume of blue smoke. Each finds his own unique, utterly random way of leaving. Personally, I don't think it seems that random to leave randomly any more. So, instead I leave in a truly original way: I make sock puppets in the shapes of farmyard animals and vegetables, until the classroom itself decides to leave, resulting in my finding myself outside. Outside of what, though - I have no idea. I rotate my eyebrow fifty-seven degrees counter-clockwise, before falling silent as the universe loses all meaning.
More to come, folks...
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