41 – Mamash kedai

Down by the riverside, in the lush green gardens of ‘The Snatcher on the Wye’ tavern, Rabbi Oud Ramonides is sitting studying an ancient scroll, which he once discovered in the ruins of an old Renaissance villa near Padua in 1950 when he was a devoutly sectarian eighteen year old mathematician. He does not notice Leporello Swinson peering over his shoulder. ‘Looks hard work,’ he says. ‘Is it worth it?’ Oud swivels round, sees who it is, and smiles with pride, ‘Es iz mamash kedai! You see here, by this symbol, there is a formula, which could transform our world. The only question is, do I dare disturb the universe?’