Todd Roshong’s Reviews > Orbital > Status Update

In orbit [Pietro’s] sense of life is simpler and gentler and more forgiving, not that his thoughts are different but that his thoughts are fewer and more distinct. They don’t avalanche like they used to. They come and they interest him for as long as they need to and then they go. (P.121)

And in time we come to see that not only are we on the sidelines of the universe but that it’s a universe of sidelines, that there is not centre, just a giddy mass of waltzing things, and that perhaps the entirety of our understanding consists of…a bashing away of mankind’s ego by the instruments of scientific enquiry until it is, that ego, a shattered edifice that lets light through. (P.41)