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–What we do not understand can be frightening.

–Yes, it can be. But when one is troubled by the reality of this world, it can be comforting to consider other possibilities. Even if those possibilities disturb us, so strong is the desire to escape the tyranny of consciousness and the narrow boundaries of our perceptions, to unlock the prisons of thought in which we trap ourselves, all in the hope that a better world or a better version of ourselves perhaps may lie on the other side of the door.

—Nobusuke Tagomi.

The Man in the High Castle.