“It could be any one of a dozen things. Experience has taught me that we much more often see connection where there is only random copresence. Pattern-seeking consciousness, you know. Great plains ape, you know.”

Part 3, Chapter 8, “The Wrath of Diana” (p. 331).
Jack Glass (2012)

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