Locke

Trying to decipher Locke.  Not easy at midnight after a day of sewer stuff and little league.

 

LOCKE: If you remove a hundred atoms from a man, is he the same person?

 

ME: Yes.

 

LOCKE: A thousand?

 

ME: Sure.

 

LOCKE: A hundred million billion kajillion?

 

ME: . . . probably.

 

LOCKE: Half?

 

ME: No.

 

LOCKE: So where is the dividing line when he stops being the same man?

 

ME: I don't know. Where?

 

LOCKE: How do I know? I died in 1704.