Little Puddles and Holes

The alms man had a disagreement with himself: he agreed that the world was ¾ water but disagreed that it was round. The disagreement arose when he tried to reconcile the ¾ water with flatness, knowing intuitively that that much water would surely roll off a flat world, to where he hadn’t the foggiest, and that a spherical world made more sense, as it could accommodate that much water, at least collecting it in pools and rivers and oceans and little puddles and holes in the ground, he still had a gnawing feeling that the world was flat, not round. This disagreement with himself caused him a great deal of needless consternation, resulting in such an eye-searing headache he had to sit in a dark room with his knees pulled into his chest and his ears battened with cotton.