The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

想想看，人类愚蠢到会去小心地避免那些可能使他们造成伤害的臭鼬或是狐狸，却不担心狮子对他们安全造成的威胁。

真相很少纯粹，也绝不简单。

因果关系的阶梯有三个梯级：观察、行动和想象。