Pretty hilarious short story of a conversation of two intelligent beings about, well, meat!
“Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?”
This part hit home for me, funny or not. Yes, it is supposed to be funny, yet it is also sad. After closing their case on the Solar System, they decided to visit a “rather shy but sweet hydrogen core cluster intelligence” nearby who, apparently, “wants to be friendly again”. “They always come around”, says one of them. To which the other replies:
“And why not? Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone…”
US, that’s us.