"Hi, my name is Gre. I come from way out West on Line. There is no other way to describe where one comes from on Line except Eastward or Westward. I can't explain where I come from like a place or name. There are only people's names and no places on Line. That is unless you know Loy? However, he may have gone East or West by now too. That was many years ago when Loy was my East sider. I can't really recall who was my West sider at that time. I guess he wasn't very nice or fun cause he didn't make a mark on my life.

"I'm now in the center of Line. I am the center of Line. The center of our whole existence, or everything that exists. Well, actually my friend Kur told me that any place on Line could be the middle since there is an infinite amount of space on both sides of me. Since there is nothing else besides Line in the whole of existence, I could be god like.

That is what I like to refer to me as. The center of Line. I am the center of Line. I am the greatest. Number one. I can go back and forth, East and West, anywhere I want to go and still be the center of Line.

Everyone else can move East and West too and I guess if you look at it, anyone could be the center of Line, but I don't like to think about it that way. I like it when I am the center of existence though. If anyone else says different, I don't really care.

"My friend Kur is dead now. He was a great thinker. Kur is still is a great thinker to me. His ideas are still with me. He has changed my life. Not just with his ideas, but Kur also taught me some great insults.

I'm not talking about Kur number two. I guess I could be. The way Kur told me, there would be an infinite amount of Kurs.

"Kur was one of those crazy genius fools who spent his life closed off to the world. He acted really odd and was an asshole to most everyone. Well, actually, he was an asshole to everyone. Kur was even an asshole to himself. He would sit there and make fun of himself just as much as he would make fun and put down others. When I think about it, Kur was just an asshole all around. He would say things like, 'Hey, you stupid fool, you can't do that. The math is all-wrong. You know better than that you stupid fool. What were you thinking?' Kur would say those things and many more to himself with a frustrated anger that would scare most anyone. It was a weird thing when I first met him cause I would think he was talking to me, but Kur would be talking to himself. I would answer with a 'uh' or a 'What did you say?' and Kur would quickly jump back with a, 'I wasn't talking to you, you stupid infidel.' That is what he always called me, stupid infidel. Stupid infidel!

Gre. Center of Existence Gre. Stupid infidel Gre. The name kinda grew on me. So did Kur. Kur had his good parts too. He was a great thinker and came up with ideas that would revolutionize Line. He had this idea about people that existed two dimensions above ours. He called them the 3-D people. I never really understood it fully. I mean, how can something more than our existence exist? That's like having directions to move besides East and West or something as unbelievable as that. I don't really think that anyone understood it fully. That is, besides Kur and the infinite amount of other Kurs on Line. Maybe no one would ever understand it fully. You see, that was where I came in. I'm a writer. I haven't had a good idea in awhile. Kur wasn't easy to talk to, as you can probably guess, so I would write out the ideas that he had and present them to other scholars and the like. For a little percentage of course.

I needed the money. This 3-D people thing was th!

e greatest idea that Kur ever had, but unfortunately he killed himself a few days ago before he finished his 3-D people idea for me to write down.

"Back awhile ago, me and my best friend, Abb, were having some coffee at the local coffee house. This is where I had met Abb and we had struck up a friendship right off. He was an economic theorist so he was out of work most of the time too. He wasn't one of those teacher or professor types. Abb didn't want to work for one of those corporations either. He was like me; he was a thinker and a dreamer. He had ideas but he needed me to help him put them on paper. He wasn't the best writer on Line.

Well, actually he sucked at writing.

" ‘Hey,' I said to Abb. ‘There is this weird guy I want you too meet.

You will probably like the guy cause he likes to just sit there and think about things and shoot the shit all day like you and me.' "Abb looked at me for a moment before adding, ‘What is his name? I'm surprised I haven't heard about the guy before. I heard about this guy one time that...Wait, there was this idea I got to tell you about real quick. No, I don't have my papers. Wait, that was something different. I was thinking about a different project. Don't you hate it when you get things confused? I lost my keys the other day. That was before I came up with that new idea I wanted you to write about... That was it! Not was I was just saying, but something different. It just came to me...' " ‘Do you wanna go see him? I am helping him write down his ideas, like I'm doing with you.' I said to Abb. I had to interrupt the point Abb was probably trying to get at, cause he would babble on and on and on excessively without any concern for what he is talking about. He talks about the most boring things in the world too. I mean he is an economics.

How fun can anyone make economy? How fun can it be in any way shape or form?

"I remember when me and Abb were trying to edit one of Abb's papers.

He would stop and say something like, ‘You see this part here? This part doesn't really do what I need it too. It is like that book I read the other week. What was it? What am I saying? You wouldn't know what I read last week or the week before that. It would be like me asking something that I did when you were not here. It just wouldn't make sense...' Blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda. Damn, this man would go on and on and on and on.

"Anyway, Abb and I went over to Kur's place. Or you could just say went to be by Kur. No one on Line can own anything. When someone says that they are going to say the accountant office, they are really going to someone like Tre who does people's taxes. There would be one person on the point's east side and one person on the point's west side.

Preferable, someone would want to be on the East side cause the mouth's of the Line Landers is on the West side. It's hard for the sound to travel if someone is on the West side instead. There is always someone on the East side and always someone of the West side of you. There are also people on both the East sider's and the West sider's side. You can always hear murmurings and a few words here and there cause the people are right next to each other. After a short while, you can learn to just zone the other sounds out. Well, Abb and I were at Kur's (Or by Kur as I just got done explaining). Kur was just there as usual wit!

h his eyes closed contemplating something profound. Or maybe Kur was just trying to avoid talking to Abb and me. Point people have two eyes. One on the East side and one on the West side. It is so people can see on both sides of themselves. Point people can see both sides of Line all the time. If there wasn't, that is like a paradox. It is impossible. Almost as impossible sounding as the 3-D people idea. No one can sneak up on anyone else. Not just for the reason that everyone is right next to someone else, but for the eyes too. It would be neat if someone could see all the way down the East side of the line and the West side of the line.

Yet, all a person can see is their West sider and their East sider. I never really figured out how someone with one eye that is blind can get by on Line. No one on Line really thinks about these things, but me. Maybe Kur does. No, wait; he contemplates much greater and intellectual things.

Kur told me one time that he had disc!

overed a North and a South. I still don't really understand what those are. I tried to look them up in a dictionary (well, actually I asked Der who is a dictionary scholar person) and he had no idea whatsoever what North and South were. He made some guesses, but I don't think they were people of the past. Kur didn't care much for history, so I think Der had about as much an idea as I did. All that I know is that they have something to do with those 3-D people Kur was always talking about.

Well, he didn't talk about things much anymore. Probably for the fact that Kur is dead now. He committed suicide, if I haven't told you that yet.

"Kur one time, in between demeaning me and cussing me out, told me that he hated this world. I had no idea what he was getting at by this.

This world is great. Line is the best world. That is, if there are any other ones out there. Maybe I should have asked Kur about that sometime or another before he died. Anyhow, he had said. ‘I don't like lines.

They drive me nuts. Worse than you drive me nuts you stupid idiot. Hurry up and get done with what you need to get done and get yourself out of there. I don't like having someone around who doesn't understand a thing that I say.' I had never heard of anyone who was scared of lines. That would be really bad to anyone who lived on Line. That would almost be as bad as someone who didn't like Points. Now that I look back on Kur's death, it probably was the Line phobia thing that drove him over the edge.

It couldn't have been the unhappiness cause I know a lot of people that are unhappy and they haven't killed themselv!

es yet. Kur said one time, ‘I have found some thing that no other stupid scholar has thought of before me. That is because they are all imbeciles.

I have found the geometry for the third dimension. The 3-D people have what is know as up and down and backwards and forwards.' Then he went on to try and explain the geometry to me, but it was beyond my understanding.

I didn't want to let that on cause then he would just put me down more.

Anyway, Kur and I were finishing writing down some of his works one day when all of a sudden Kur abruptly said, ‘I am finished now. Get your stupid self out of my presence you stupid imbecile.' As you know, I was use to that so I left. And then I found out later that Kur had committed suicide. Well, much later, Abb and me were at the coffeehouse again (actually it was Foe, who served the coffee) and were discussing different things. ‘I still want to travel Line. Go back and forth all over Line.

I want to see all the Points...Wait; I co!

uld see more economists and maybe see which one of them has read my stuff.

I bet you most of them have read my stuff. Especially that one idea I had about two weeks back. You remember the one...' Abb went on before I interrupted him with, ‘I would like to go with you. When would you like to go?' Abb seemed surprised at this. ‘What?' Abb replied. I knew that I really had surprised the hell out of him, cause for once he was speechless. So, I remarked, ‘We can go find the other Kur.' " ‘The other Kur? Did he have a twin brother or something? I never knew of him to talk about a twin. Maybe, he might have had a partner. I didn't know him that long, so I'm not sure, but...' Abb said before I interrupted him again. ‘No, he didn't have a twin or a partner. He once told me that if Line is infinitely long with an infinite amount of points than there have to be at least one more of him somewhere. I guess that would make another one of you and me.' " ‘Really? That really sounds cool. In fact let's go right now.” Abb said, as he started moving East. That seemed like a good enough direction to me. Hell, there are only two directions one can move in Line. It's like a 50/50 decision. It's not like the 3-D people who have all these directions and things to move in that Kur had told me about. It gets confusing to me when I even start to think about it. I get a little dizzy thinking about the infinite population thing, so I just try and except it. No one ever really thought about the infinite people thing.

At least no one seemed too. I wonder if the 3-D people are the same way with the population. Well, I better not think about that. I mean, it's so different from out one-dimensional existence.

"Anyway, me and Abb left right then and there is search of Kur number two. Maybe we would come to Kur number three first. Of course, that Kur wouldn't know that he was Kur number three. Come to think about it, Kur number two wouldn't know that he was Kur number two. I wonder what Abb and me are going to say to them when and if we find them. Maybe Kur number two would have thought our Kur would have been Kur number one.

But, what if all the Kurs committed suicide? There would still be an infinite amount more of them, though, that haven't committed suicide.

Ohh, I'm getting dizzy again.

" ‘Hey, Abb,' I say. ‘Tell me about that new theory you came up with.' That should pass the time for a long long long long time.

" ‘Well, let me start with this...' Abb started on.”