What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

Most people would look at an animal in a cage and instinctively feel that it should be set free. . . . It's a dangerous world out there, filled with predators. . . . What would you prefer? A comfortable, safe, warm, cosy life in a cage, or an uncertain life of freedom.

I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.

Living for ever would be like marrying yourself, with no possibility of a divorce.

So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins. What?" We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together." Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.