Guide entry — draft
- Subject
- BabelPay
- Classification
- Mostly harmless
- Subsection
- Money, the moving of
- Field researcher
- Last reported three drinks into a briefing, on Earth
- Full entry
- Coming
The Guide — Babelpay — Revision 42
Don’t Panic
BabelPay moves money between people who use different words for it.
That is as much as the Guide is willing to commit to print today. A fuller entry is coming.
Everything we can say so far
Three numbers, in place of an explanation
42
The answer. We are still checking the question.
7½ Myr
The longest anyone around here has waited for an answer. Yours will be quicker.
1
Entry in preparation. You are looking at the cover of it.
The remaining details are, for the moment, on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, in a disused lavatory, behind a door marked Beware of the Leopard. We are told this is normal. We are moving them somewhere better.