“When the universe finally breaks through the strange shell of human culture in which we have all become thoroughly enmeshed… it is as if a fish suddenly discovers water. You would think this happens to every fish. In fact, only the rarest of fish are ‘wet’ in this sense. So it is of our kind, as well. We too rarely emerge from the womb of human culture into the universal culture from which we arise and to which we must certainly return. This much I will tell you, and every fish knows it: the waters are alive with intelligence and wonder.”

— an anonymous informant