Colours in the Steel
“Alexius, who had been asleep, yawned and sat up. Couldn’t be that time already, could it? Well, presumably it was. He lit a candle from the small lamp, found his place in the book he’d been reading, and tried to concentrate.
When we consider the essential universality of the Principle, observing it as a whole and not merely the sum of its multifarious perceptible effects (which by definition cannot be taken to be true paradigms of the larger image, diluted as they are by the material and the purely fortuitous), we can at last begin tentatively to approach a state of awareness in which the infinite and the individual gradually cease to be capable of differentiation . . .
It wasn’t much better the second time he tried to read it; it was still like trying to catch a runaway goose in a thicket of brambles. He didn’t put the book down, but he allowed the page to go out of focus. Not long afterwards, he was asleep again— —And standing on the city walls, up on the top platform of one of the ...towers that guarded the Drovers’ Gate, looking out across the place where the river forked out towards the plains.MoreLess
When we consider the essential universality of the Principle, observing it as a whole and not merely the sum of its multifarious perceptible effects (which by definition cannot be taken to be true paradigms of the larger image, diluted as they are by the material and the purely fortuitous), we can at last begin tentatively to approach a state of awareness in which the infinite and the individual gradually cease to be capable of differentiation . . .
It wasn’t much better the second time he tried to read it; it was still like trying to catch a runaway goose in a thicket of brambles. He didn’t put the book down, but he allowed the page to go out of focus. Not long afterwards, he was asleep again— —And standing on the city walls, up on the top platform of one of the ...towers that guarded the Drovers’ Gate, looking out across the place where the river forked out towards the plains.MoreLess
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