Response to How Much Shall We Bet?

I loved this story. The basic idea is to tell the story of the universe from an amusing point of view, making the universe the back story rather than the main story, focusing more on the gamblers. What I liked most is how the gamblers sit and watch the universe become what it is now, with no understanding or explanation as to why they are there or how. The gambler's are also very similar, even if they don't know it, considering themselves smarter and more delightful than the other and using this to gain the upper hand. Unfortunately I couldn't quite understand why they could foresee what was coming and how they could predict human civilizations befor ethere was even a human race. what i would like to note is that this is from Cosmicomics as noted as the bottom of the page, in likely reference to the comedic novelization of the universe/cosmos. I really love Calvino's style of gentle mockery, and his fascination with science. He seems to repeteadly use it (exaggerated to the point of impossibility of course) in his texts, in this one it is glaring obvious when he describes the formation of the universe " a few particles spinning around, some electrons scattered here and there at random, and protons all more or less on their own...each proton its electron started whirling and buzzing. An enormous hydrogen cloud was condensing in space." and he also uses medical science in "El Vizconde Demediado" when they save a man cut in half (each separate half) and who is later put back together. This time the mockery is with Dean (k)yK and Qfwfq who are contradictions themeselves as they see creation but they themselves appear to never be "created" and someone mingle with the human race with ease, even though they were present before the birth of human life. I'd like to read the rest of Cosmicomics to see the rest of Calvino's explanation of the universe.