“Elena likes visual checks. She likes tangibility. The wind and sky were ephemeral enough, she told me once. If she’s going to study them, she wants to feel them.” ScienceSpaceVisionStudySkyWindObservationFeelingTangibility Book:To Be Taught, If Fortunate Source: To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“Jane 23 did not understand what she was seeing. On the other side of the wall, there were not more walls. There were huge piles of scrap, but far away, and the floor in between her and them didn't look like any floor she'd ever seen. Above them, there was a... a ceiling. But not a ceiling. It didn't look touchable. She couldn't explain it. There was a ceiling that wasn't a ceiling, and it was blue. Just blue, for a long, long way. Blue for ever.” Sky Book:A Closed and Common Orbit Source: A Closed and Common Orbit