Cookie

Cookie is the main character of Fizzolophy. At the beginning of the book, he is 11 years old; he is so small that his friends don’t even grant him a capital on his nickname.

Cookie prefers playing cards rather than doing his homework, so that his mother hires a guardian to help him: Alan. Alan is, however, not very disciplined, so that Cookie always ends up learning something else than what is written in his homework. Instead of working on his mathematic, history or geography lessons, he discovers where he comes from, where he goes, why he is, why the world is like it is, who he is, and so on.

Cookie is not interested in these fundamental questions at all; he just wants to have fun. However, by asking questions that at first seem of no relevance at all, he allows Alan to find logical answers to those fundamental questions.

Having only little knowledge and no belief, cookie is spiritually innocent. He is however not dumb and has no preconceptions.

Cookie celebrates his twelfth birthday in chapter 20, is between 18 and 20 years old in the last chapter, and is very, very old in the postlude.

What he says

« That would mean I have 20 billion years of work ahead of me?! That's not fair! » (A Short Work Schedule)

« You worry about the weirdest things!… » (The Consciousness Equations)

« I guess it’s because I am a great philosopher, even if once more I didn’t understand a thing! » (The Metapoliticians)

« …Because wisdom is found in the future rather than in the past. » (A Night at the U.N.)

« Why don’t we simply get us an ice cream? » (Delusions of Grandeur)

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