‘That thing,’ he said, speaking to them all, especially to Norm Schein and his wife, ‘has a name which you’d recognize if I told it to you. Although it would never call itself that. We’re the ones who’ve titled it. From experience, at a distance, over thousands of years. But sooner or later we were bound to be confronted by it. Without the distance. Or the years.’ Anne Hawthorne said, ‘You mean God.’
