Poe’s Eureka Moment

Viewers of “The Good Place,” the TV comedy series and ersatz philosophy seminar, learned in an early episode that the prophets of the world’s major religions have figured out only 5% of the mysteries of the cosmos. But (according to the show) one night in 1972, a visionary thinker offered an explanation that was an astonishing 92% right. The joke is that this all-seeing genius was a Canadian stoner kid named Doug Forcett, who solved the riddles of existence while stupendously high.