"Who can buy Brain Spring?" someone suddenly asked.
After a brief silence, mathematicians chimed in one after another:
"I can't buy it. I checked Amazon, and several stores sell Brain Spring, but they're all out of stock."
"My wife's coworker bought a case. It works out to seventy dollars a bottle. Too expensive. I'm planning to wait a little longer."
"What is Brain Spring?"
"You don't even know about Brain Spring? The drink that boosts intelligence! It's been all over the news lately!"
"Boosts intelligence? Isn't it a scam? I mean, we're all mathematicians here, members of a highly intelligent population. It'd be too embarrassing to fall for a trick like that. We'd end up in the news."
"Go look it up yourself. Brain Spring is the real deal. Even a gorilla can speak after drinking it. It's terrifyingly effective!"
The group fell briefly silent.
A moment later, another batch of lurkers and silent watchers who normally never spoke emerged.
"Incredible! There's actually such a miraculous drink! I wouldn't have known if I hadn't seen you discussing it!"
"I've been in seclusion proving conjectures lately and haven't looked at the news at all. Is this Brain Spring real? Is it really that powerful?"
"Everyone, we absolutely have to buy a few cases and try it. Maybe after drinking it, we'll prove the Millennium Prize Problems!"
"I feel like my mind has gotten slower as I've aged. Maybe I should get some Brain Spring and drink it. Perhaps I could still produce some work. The key is that it isn't sold anywhere around here!"
A group of mathematicians who had been oblivious to the outside world learned about Brain Spring's effects. They were collectively astonished, then began discussing ways to purchase it.
"I looked it up. This stuff is mainly sold