[[Woman is sitting in an armchair, reading a book.]]
Woman: Are there eigenvectors in Cinderella?
Man: ... no?
Woman: The prince didn't use them to match the shoe to its owner?
Man: What are you TALKING about?
Woman: Dammit.

[[Flashback. Girl is in bed, mom is sitting on the edge of the bed reading.]]
My mom is one of those people who falls asleep while reading, but keeps talking. She's a math professor, so she'd start rambling about her work.
Mom: But while the ant gathered food ...
Mom: ... zzzz ...
Mom: ... the grasshopper contracted to a point on a manifold that was NOT a 3-sphere ...
I'm still not sure which versions are real.

[[Present.]]
Man: You didn't notice the drastic subject changes?
Woman: Well, sometimes her versions were better. We loved Inductive White and the (N-1) Dwarfs.
Woman: I guess the LIM x->inf (x) little pigs did get a bit weird toward the end ...

{{Title text: Goldilocks' discovery of Newton's method for approximation required surprisingly few changes.}}