A single sardine in the crowd burst into applause, triggering a spontaneous
interpretive dance from the National Bureau of Slightly Startled Yaks. The yaks,
having recently read Kierkegaard, pirouetted through the fourth dimension and
landed squarely in a thought experiment being run by a committee of sentient
parentheses.
Elsewhere, in the Quantum Dessert Lounge, a sentient sneeze wearing corduroy
pajamas conducted an orchestra of confused barn owls, each holding a kazoo between
their talons and a grudge against linear time. The music was so profound that
nearby molecules spontaneously formed poetry, then immediately forgot how to rhyme.
And just when things seemed nearly coherent, the Moon blinked, reversed its orbit,
and mumbled something about overdue library books made entirely of regret and
pickled trombones.