« The master had never conferred personality on the on-board AI. Innovations, language tics, simulated moods - this was considered a retarded teen thing: funny for three days, and then it turned to bad taste, like embodying the spirit of his ship in toys. The custom required maintaining a safe distance. »

« Wul certainly has a vision of a world that forms a coherent whole, but this unity does not harm its parts. Man has a role to play in the symphony of the cosmos. This role is not intended to alter reality, or to give it a moral interpretation, but to poetize it. For if we find poetry in tone, dreamlike drifts, images, we find it above all, unintended but inspired, constituting the very source of the work, in its metaphysics. There is only one way to share this philosophy. It boils down to one expression: the pleasure of reading. »