[A sealed letter left for Eucledeos Pytheos]

[cmenden]

Dear Eucledeos Pytheos,

While on a walkabout around the Well, a mutual acquaintance of ours loaned me a copy of your thesis. The idea of reading a text dedicated to fluid dynamics intrigued me, so I found a shaded place, purchased some halva, and set to reading your work.

I was completely devasted by the pedestrian nature of this work. Did you seriously write a thesis on how water is fluid because it flows around rocks? And why did you include so many words about stopping time and starting it again? Are you some kind of chronomancer? Really?

You are fortunate that the halva was so delicious, or else this letter would have surely had a much sharper tone. I would like to meet sometime, to see if you are less of a fool than your writing would imply. If, however, that would be a waste of my time, then find paper and ink to inform me before I make the effort.

Regards,
Estellise Azimi

[Pandito24]

Dear Estelisse Azimi,

I am deeply saddenned that you did not enjoy my thesis, but you need to understand that it is not in deep theories and profound scientifical analysis that the most profound knowledge is found. After all, a scholar of olde once spent fifty pages in describing the effect of weights dropped in water. I'd also like to say that no, the rock is not the sole argument toward the fluidity of water, but it shows us that water adapts, that it will find its way whatever happens, as I describe about the watery tunnels you seem to have not mentionned in your letter.

For the stopping of time, it is quite simple : You cannot draw nor represent water in its free flowing form. Putting water on paper, so to speak, implicate that  you stop the time of the water, to better study it. Then you can calculate the various effects that any movement or shapes might have on it. I do not revendicate Chronomancy, although the mastery of such magics would interest me.

I'd love to meet you, to see if your understand of theories is deeper than your answer seems to indicate, or you can simply find paper and ink to inform me otherwise. Simply give me a date and an hour in which you want to debate, I will bring falafells from the Souk and we can have an informed discussion.

Regards,

Eucledeos Pytheos

[cmenden]

Dear Eucledeos Pytheos,

It is precisely the lack of such rigorous experimentation that made me find your thesis so aversive. I am certain if you have spent fifty pages proving your thesis, I would have found it a far more enjoyable read.

I will seek you out for a meeting. I welcome the opportunity to have an intellectual discussion, something sorely lacking on the troublesome road to this place.

Regards,
Estellise Azimi