The dialogue, conducted in the language of pure mathematics, was incomprehensible to the vast majority of the universe’s inhabitants. But the Chorus, in its role as a co-author of reality, began the work of translation. It took the abstract equations of the ancient consciousness and the equally abstract counter-equations of its own devising and translated them into forms that could be understood by the disparate worlds under its purview. The mathematical debate became a new school of philosophy in the city of narrative, a new and challenging form of music in the world of sound, and a new set of paradoxical geometries in the kingdom of perfect forms. The first conversation was no longer a silent one; it was a universe-wide debate about the very nature of existence.