Sit in a quiet place . . .

. . . I DARE you to find one!

"Quiet Place" is a myth. An "earless you" or a "de-eared you" is the only feasible situation that can approach the platonic form that is "quiet place".

There are various versions to how the universe came about to end up in this fallen state bereft of a quiet place. The Biblical version of this Creation story - goes something as given below:

Long long ago there was only quiet and no place. God found this lack of place a most inconvenient truth! "It is quite quiet here!", He mused. "I say, it would be quite capital if could add a place to it so as to derive a quite quiet place!", He concluded!

"Let there be place", He declared. And there was place.

He quite liked the idea of "Let there be", so He let some more "Let there be"s lose on the hapless place that He had "let there be"ed first. As a consequence, place was soon filled with such miscellaneous clutter as earth, sky, stars, sun, moon, oceans, plants, animals and a certain proto-"Jean Baptiste Luc Planchon" called 'Adam'.

Crowded though place was, as a consequence of all the above tenants jostling for place in place, it still somehow managed to be reasonably quiet. Adam had a jolly good time in place, back then, eating Big-Macs and KFC Chicken (yes, I know chicken is redundant here), drinking water called beer, and driving about place in his SUV. However, all this high cholesterol diet made poor Adam rather obese and one quiet day he started complaining quietly of quite severe chest pain! As a result God had to perform emergency surgery. He opened up Adam's hemithoraces and did the needful therein. But while zipping Adam back up, He forgot to put back an element of Adam's endoskeletal framework, that He had removed in order peer and poke about freely.

He was absently doodling with that spare bit of endo-skeleton one fine day when some of His "Let there be"s ran amok again and He ended up "Let there be"ing a certain someone, He didn't know quite what to do with. So he sent this person to place to be a companion to Adam.

The consequence of the 'company' this person kept with Adam is better known as the Big Bang Theory today. Place has never known quiet ever since.