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[heslopian]

I agree it is somewhat clumsy, what about "in a singularity, we aren't stuck?"

That small change would make the line infinitely better, imo.

"last line suddenly veers into jokey informality." That's true it does, but that was my intent. I'll be happy to discuss if it was a good choice, or if it achieved what I wanted, but it wasn't by accident. It's somewhat a page out of Aristotle, that is for drama to work well, it has to have to comedy in it. Plus if a college undergrad were thinking about this, that would probably be his response.

That actually makes sense and, reading it again, I think I'm okay with that line, knowing that. I didn't think it was accidental so much as painfully contrived, but looking at it as a deliberate joke it does kind of work.