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From their vantage point atop the hospital, Derry looked like a town whose heart had been pierced by a narrow green dagger... except in the darkness, the dagger was black.

CONT: ... or perhaps there is no Random beyond a certain level; we suspect that may be the case, but we have no real way of telling.
We do know that it is sometbing from one of these higher levels that has interested itself in Ed, and that something else from up there made a countermove. That countermove is you, Ralph and Lois.]

CONT: if you like—ruled by the Random and the Purpose.

Above these floors, inaccessible to us but very much a part of the same tower of existence, live other beings. Some of them are marvellous and wonderful; others are hideous beyond our ability to comprehend, let alone yours. These beings might be called the Higher Purpose and the Higher Random

Clotho: [Be content with this: beyond the Short-time levels of existence and the Long-Time levels on which Lachesis, Atropos, and I exist, there are yet other levels. These are inhabited by creatures we could call All-Timers, beings which are either eternal or so close to it as to make no difference. Short-Timers and Long-Timers live in overlapping spheres of existence-on connected floors of the same building,