“They always talked of being reincarnated so that they could kiss in public. They died together, in an accident, during a clandestine encounter. He was reincarnated as a circus elephant and she as a petunia. The life of a petunia is very brief, which put them out of sync. In the following reincarnation, both were human, with sixty-three years between them. She became Pope and he a darling little girl who was permitted to kiss the papal ring during an audience.”
1e26 — A human body turns over roughly 50–70 kg of ATP every day, about 1026 hydrolysis reactions: the metabolic pulse of an entire organism. 1e26 is a pet domain for weird projects that live at that scale.