“The ancients knew better than to allow the forces of logic to occupy positions of power in the circles of dreaming. These two things were kept surgically discreet. Rationality had its place in the worlds of action and relation, but its actual basis was something that could not be captured or manipulated. The power of abstraction was understood to be dangerous and aggressive. Killing makes a record in the form of artifacts. This was understood clearly in connection with these matters, and thus, in the sacred places and ways, the greater body of the rational was purposefully excluded.

The mind that is the basis of logic is the product of dreaming; but if is allowed near its own birthplace, it too often becomes rabid, and almost invariably attacks its own basis with lethal ferocity. Such an attack must always fail, regardless of its structure or power. The tail cannot defeat the dog that wags it. But the modern cultures of humans are like the inhabited fossilized remains of an ironic pulse in history, and it is the pulse of the rational attempting to forcibly evict its own basis from reality.”

— an anonymous informant