““Suddenly, like a fizzling light bulb, the sun seems to wither on its interstellar vine. Everything darkles. Shadows caper in the stands and behind Sansu’s leaking, sunken eyes. For a few seconds, he abandons his human disposition, and enters a cosmic cognition wherein thought and feeling are unified—hungry, endless avarice—an all-embracing degradation spanning atoms and afterlives, planets and the souls therein.””
