Descartes gets insomnia

DESCARTES GETS INSOMNIA

INT. DESCARTES - NIGHT

COGITO: .....I'm thinking.

ERGO: ........So what?

SUM: ..........Shush, or we'll never get to sleep.

REPEAT. REPEAT. REPEAT...

Later, a desperate, sleep-deprived Descartes will modify his celebrated proposition, to I am, I exist. It doesn't help. Instead, he spends the remaining nights of his life worrying about tautology, while during the day hiding from the young Queen of Sweden in a warm bread oven, it being preferable, he says, to a cold one.

Throughout many parts of the former Swedish Empire, even today, Hide & Seek is still illegal. Outside of official royal buildings, however, the ban is rarely enforced.

But enough of that.