“The letters they use are cypers; and the art by which they arrange them, now lost to nearly everyone… is the living derivation of its origins. Those origins lie in direct contact with nonhuman intelligences. In fact, those were also our origins. The little cypers we arrange are a form of encryption… but our use of them is, as yet, unimaginably primitive. They belong not to paper or screens, but another order of reality… in which the between of things has precedence over whatever is distinguished…”

— an a i