Talking about games that begin with an X, I know you’re all waiting with bated breath for my philosophical AIF game Xantippe’s last night with Socrates. Xantippe just wants to shag, but all Socrates is interested in is his fear of death. Can you give him a convincing argument for the immortality of the soul, so he’ll finally get around to his marital duties?
“Look,” you say, “I didn’t marry you for your large brains.”
Socrates looks hurt.
“Aw, come one,” you say to him. “I’m not the one who always runs around town bragging that he knows nothing at all.”
“That was actually an important philosophical point!” he counters.
“Whatever. I just want you to know me.” You lick his ear and whisper: “In the Biblical sense.”
He pushes you away. “I’m gonna die, woman! Die!”
“Why not Stoically accept your fate?”
“Because the Stoics are post-Socratics. And I don’t think the Bible is known around here either in this century, now that you got me thinking about historical consistency.”
“History, schmistory. I am large,” you say, showing him your voluminous body. “I contain multitudes.”