From lemma to pentilemma, via the Impossible Trinity

....In the beginning was presumably the lemma. It’s entirely possible that God said, “Let there be lemma”, and there was lemma. And the lemma shone in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Nor did I. So I looked up dictionary.com, which says a lemma is a subsidiary proposition introduced in proving another proposition; a helping theorem. Its only purpose lay in paving the way for something greater and grander, very probably monetary policy. The good thing about the lemma was that it was a proposition. Because to proposition is the first step in the long and convoluted road that leads to begetting. Thus it came to be, in the fullness of time, that the lemma begat the dilemma............

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