@CubeRootOfTrue And how many times have I returned to it, lantern in hand, chasing that small, glistening kingdom of nerve and instinct? Let others seek continents and crowns. I have chosen this narrow, pulsing province, the leech’s brain, where truth hides in wet folds and refuses the grasp.But not forever.Here, in this minute empire, I shall pin the fugitive thought to the page. Here, the slippery shall be made still. Here, at last, is my dominion.