But does it float

“It’s ringing and ringing. For a long time. No answers. It’s damned annoyed. I let it ring a bit more. Now there is a man who takes the handset.

Hello, he says

Hello, I’m calling from the top of the building (Empire State Building, New York), I say.

Yes, the man says.

Are you aware that the time runs slightly faster at the top than it does at the bottom of this building? I ask.

No, the man says.

Well, it does, I say.

All right, the man says.

Are you impressed? I ask.

Not really, he says.

But that means the time dosn’t exist, I say.

Oh yeah, the man says.

So what do you think? I ask.

I couldn’t care less, the man says and hangs up.

Fool.”

- Erlend Loe, Naiv. Super (Naive. Super)