“The degree of our own confusion, as experienced situationally, is always at least equivalent to the nearby presence of its contravening virtue: insight. Their relationship is reciprocal, which is, in part, why many forms of insight carry a lethal price.

And so the appearance of confusion should catalyze our utmost curiosity, if not outright suspicion. For always these twins are found together, and the one that appears in the foreground of our awareness must be matched or even exceeded by the one that is hidden in its shadow.

The astute observer will notice this at once from observations of their own shadow, as well as those cast by other things, and other beings… and the implications implicit in this strange relationship…”

— an anonymous informant