Far Vaster

Weather Report: A Remark You Made...9/29/78

..but a mind is blown when something that you always feared
but knew to be impossible turns out to be true;
when the world turns out to be far vaster,
far more marvelous or malevolent than you ever dreamed;
when you get proof that everything is connected to everything else,
that everything you know is wrong,
that you are both the center of the universe
and a tiny speck sailing off its nethermost edge.

--Michael Chabon
Maps and Legends