Sublime

Human beings set out to encounter other worlds, other civilizations, without having fully gotten to know their own hidden recesses, their blind alleys, well shafts, dark barricaded doors.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Thomas M. Disch, Joanna Russ, Samuel R. Delany, Gene Wolfe, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and Stanisław Lem.

tossing out all the logic circuits, he replaced them with self-regulating egocentripetal narcissistors.