“Perspective”
“It looks empty,” he pointed to the coaly heavens, “but it’s actually full of dark matter. The stars look tiny, but some of them are ten million times the volume of the sun and a million times brighter too. We all look solid, but we’re really 99.99 percent empty space. Atoms are proportionately as far apart from each other in inner as stars are in outer space.” Elijah, a hairy man like his namesake, though lacking the leather girdle of the prophet, did, like him, shoot divine fire from his eyes as he spoke. In some way that no one around him fully understood, he had experienced the unity not only of the micro- and macro-levels of existence but of Spirit and the matter it sometimes pretended to be.”