We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it.

“Weston did not know the Malacandrian word for laugh: indeed, it was not a word …”

“It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's …”

“Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up all those things - trees and grass and…”

“I am conscious of a partly pathological hostility toward what is fashionable.”