"Webs of events that grew together to become a net in life. Life was a thing that grew wild. She supposed there was an overall pattern, a design to it.
She'd never found one.
She thought of the tools she had gathered together, and painstakingly learned to use. Futureprobes, Tarot and I Ching and the wise wispfingers from the stars ... all these to scry and ferret and vex the smokethink future. A broad general knowledge, encompassing bits of history, psychology, ethology, religious theory and practices of many kinds. Her charts of self-knowledge. Her library. The inner thirst for information about everything that had lived or lives on Earth that she'd kept alive long after childhood had ended.
None of them helped make sense of living.
She watched the sealight grow."
Keri Hulme, The Bone People, p.111
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