The future, it seemed, was turning out to be one damn thing after another. - Stephen Baxter

Anyhow, that’s our story. And I think, in my glimpses of the great encompassing mechanism that has shaped us all, I’ve seen a little of the numinous. That’s enough of God for me.

Have you studied history, Anna?"
"Yes. The information is limited, the interpretation is partial. But it is interesting.

Like all the works of man, I saw, even these great structures were transient chimeras, destined to impermanence compared to the chthonian patience of the land.