"There’s a vital fractal there. It’s all about scaling issues, basically. Here we are, inside these walls. Outside our walls, Green Huey is lurking over us, full of sinister intent. But the President is lurking over Huey—and our new President is, in his own unique way, a rather more sinister person than the Governor of Louisiana. The President runs the USA, a nation that is all wounded and inward-turning now—a little world, surrounded by a bigger world full of people who grew bored with us. They no longer pay America to tell them that we are their future. And then beyond that world ... well, I guess it’s Greta’s world. A rational, Einsteinian-Newtonian cosmos. The cosmos of objective, observable facts. And beyond scientific understanding ... all those dark phenomena. Metaphysics. Will and idea. History, maybe."