“The most obvious thing is the one least apparent to human beings. Radiation is a media — a memory-body. Foremost amongst the radiant media is light. Light is no more a mere event than you, or Africa. It is (something analogous to) a transentient medium of memory, intelligence, and relation. Since your species understands very little indeed about these matters, they think light is something objective. But it isn’t and cannot be merely that; it is and must be directly involved in producing the beings who question it. Would that they had a little more insight into how to ask truly useful questions. Perhaps in light. That is to say, in time.”

— an anonymous informant