"Isn't it obvious?" he answered. "No. It is so far from obvious that it has gone right through obscure, breezed past unfathomable and is now complete… - Matt Hughes

Filidor was becoming more and more convinced that he had recently been inhabiting a reality that was at sharp variance to the rest of the world’s.

"We all use the world, and are used by it," he said, after a moment. "Some of us are more aware than others of using and being used. It is our fortune to have fewer illusions."

As ever, you vainly grasp at diaphanous vastness while the tangible turns to mist in your hands.