"...small iridescent sphere of almost unbearable brightness. At first I thought it was spinning, then I realized that the movement was an illusion produced by the dizzying spectacles inside it..."
"Saw all the mirrors on the planet (and none of them reflecting me)...saw a woman in Inverness whom I shall never forget, saw her violent hair, her haughty body..."
"I saw the populous sea, saw dawn and dusk...saw simultaneous night and day...saw the oblique shadows of ferns on the floor of a greenhouse..."
"Saw my face and my viscera..."
"...saw your face, and I felt dizzy, and I wept, because my eyes had seen that secret, hypothetical object whose name has been usurped by men but which no man has ever truly looked upon..."
