Did it ever occur to you," asked Kira, "that I may be here for the very unusual, unnatural reason of wanting to learn a work I like only because I like it?

There's nothing so magnificent - for making others feel you - as to have no imagination.

This was perhaps the evolutionary usefulness of the elderly, Bao had concluded: to give the young some kind of psychic shield from reality, putting them under a description which allowed them to ignore the fact that age and death would come to them too, and could come early and out of sequence.

Cause I don't think we ever really get over our childhood. It's always there, waiting.

Written By Ted Dekker

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