"What does a scanner see?
Into the head?
Down into the heart?
Into me... into us...clearly?
Or darkly?
I hope it does see clearly, because I can't any longer see into myself.
I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone's sake, the scanners do better.
Because if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed,
cursed again and like we have been continually, and
we'll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that
little fragment
wrong, too."