"I understand," Gomez said. "You’re telling me that it doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is the Cause. But listen to this!" He pulled a notebook from inside his willow-printed coat. He read loudly, desperately. "‘A dissipative self-organizing system evolves along a coherent sequence of space-time structures. We may distinguish between four different dimensional frameworks: autopoiesis, ontogeny, phylogeny, anagenesis.’" He crumpled the paper in anguish. "And this is from my poetry class!"