"Bénard convection does that sometimes," Jane babbled. "The cells have six different axes of rotation and that self-similarity has gotta mean that the cell updraft vectors are all, well ..." Words failed her. Words failed her quite suddenly, and really badly. A kind of software crash for language. Words—yeah, even scientific words—there were times and contingencies when reality ripped loose from verbal symbolism and just went its own goddamned way. And this was one of those times.