Debut: “The Cosmic Punchline” - Sci-Fi short

In this short segment - 1. Random headlines from the social feeds [posted under Science and other notes].2. Debut of my Experimental Sci-Fi Short - “The Cosmic Punchline”Excerpt: Charlie shot up from his chair. “Jesus Christ!”The toaster made a ding! sound. “Close. But no cigar.”Continued: Conscious Living and Wendy's Coffeehouse Curious: Source. Of note: In the sublime war of man against Reality man has but one weapon, the imagination. The ethereal imagination is the highest form of the evolution of the transfiguring and sublimating power of images. It marks the boundary line between the mystery of matter and the mystery of spirit. It is the fine volatilized plasma of an esoteric dimension, of a world where the truths hinted at by the x-ray and radium are true for the human mind and body.Quote Investigator believes Benjamin de Casseres deserves credit for the #quotation under examination. Jules de Gaultier improbably received #credit in 1935 after the saying had been circulating for nearly two decades. Lewis Carroll and C. S. Lewis implausibly received credit in the 21st century.