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Epilogue

-- OK. There is still something I don't get. When you display a warning, you want to make it readable, right? Like bright yellow text on red background. What sense does it make to display it in such a cryptic way?

-- I can only guess that warning is a legal requirement. And they don't like it. So they found a loophole to comply without really complying.

-- They must have found the one lawyer who could think of such a thing.

-- I bet they are not short of that kind.

They are now on the surface, back to the car, eating a sandwich before hitting the road.

-- Funny the thing you told me earlier. I never realized that.

-- Which one? I am always funny.

-- Yeah, well... debatable. Anyway. It was about the pillars and the walls. That there are exactly as many pillars in a labyrinth as there are walls between the pillars.

-- That's true for every perfect maze. But that is not interesting. The interesting part is that one can match pillars to adjacent walls in a perfect one-to-one relationship. It is like one pillar with one wall form an unit.

-- Interesting... You give me an idea. If we want to go into the business of building prefabricated mazes, we just need to produce one type of piece, a pillar with an attached wall? That would work for every possible labyrinth? You never need an extra pillar or an extra wall?

-- Exactly. You still need to build the outer wall, of course.

-- We can subcontract that.

They are now on the surface, back to the car, eating a sandwich before hitting the road.

-- Funny the thing you told me earlier. I never realized that.

-- Which one? I am always funny.

-- Yeah, well... debatable. Anyway. It was about the pillars and the walls. That there are exactly as many pillars in a labyrinth as there are walls between the pillars.

-- That's true for every perfect maze. But that is not interesting. The interesting part is that one can match pillars to adjacent walls in a perfect one-to-one relationship. It is like one pillar with one wall form a unit.

-- Interesting... You give me an idea. If we want to go into the business of building prefabricated mazes, we just need to produce one type of piece, a pillar with an attached wall? That would work for every possible labyrinth? You never need an extra pillar or an extra wall?

-- Exactly. You still need to build the outer wall, of course.

-- We can subcontract that.

They are now on the surface, back to the car, eating a sandwich before hitting the road.

-- Funny the thing you told me earlier. I never realized that.

-- Which one? I am always funny.

-- Yeah, well... debatable. Anyway. It was about the pilars and the walls. That there are exactly as many pilars in a labyrinth as there are walls between the pilars.

-- That's true for every perfect maze. But that is not interesting. The interesting part is that one can match pilars to adjacent walls in a perfect one-to-one relationship. It is like one pilar with one wall form an unit.

-- Interesting... You give me an idea. If we want to go into the business of building prefabricated mazes, we just need to produce one type of piece, a pilar with an attached wall? That would work for every possible labyrinth? You never need an extra pilar or an extra wall?

-- Exactly. You still need to build the outer wall, of course.

-- We can subcontract that.

They are now on the surface, back to the car, eating a sandwich before hitting the road.

-- Funny the thing you told me earlier. I never realized that.

-- Which one? I am always funny.

-- Yeah, well... debatable. Anyway. It was about the pillars and the walls. That there are exactly as many pillars in a labyrinth as there are walls between the pillars.

-- That's true for every perfect maze. But that is not interesting. The interesting part is that one can match pillars to adjacent walls in a perfect one-to-one relationship. It is like one pillar with one wall form an unit.

-- Interesting... You give me an idea. If we want to go into the business of building prefabricated mazes, we just need to produce one type of piece, a pillar with an attached wall? That would work for every possible labyrinth? You never need an extra pillar or an extra wall?

-- Exactly. You still need to build the outer wall, of course.

-- We can subcontract that.