undone...

[e_clare]

...by the combined powers of the end of Arcadia and the Garden State soundtrack.

(<-- sad sap)



Valentine ... But with heat - friction - a ball breaking a window -

Hannah Yes.

Valentine It won't work backwards.

Hannah Who thought it did?

Valentine She saw why. You can put back the bits of glass but you can't collect up the heat of the smash. It's gone.

Septimus So the Improved Newtonian Universe must cease and grow cold. Dear me.

Valentine The heat goes into the mix. (He gestures to indicate the air in the room, in the universe.)

Thomasina Yes, we must hurry if we are going to dance.

Valentine And everything is mixing the same way, all the time, irreversibly...

Septimus Oh, we have time, I think.

Valentine ...till there's no time left. That's what time means.

Septimus When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

Thomasina Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?

Septimus It will serve.