"Now, Emmanuel thought, I will change the universe that I have taken inside me. He regarded the 
geometric shapes and allowed them to fill up a little with matter. Across from him the ratty blue 
couch that Elias prized began to warp away from plumb; its lines changed. He had taken away the 
causality that guided it and it stopped being a ratty blue couch with Kaff stains on it and became 
instead a Hepplewhite cabinet, with fine bone china plates and cups and saucers behind its doors."

"He restored a certain measure of time-and saw Elias Tate come and go about the room, enter 
and leave; he saw accretional layers laminated together in sequence along the linear time axis. The 
Hepplewhite cupboard remained for a short series of layers; it held its passive or off or rest mode, 
and then it was whisked over into its active or on or motion, mode and joined the permanent world 
of the phylogons, participating now in all those of its class that had come before. In his projected 
world brain the Hepplewhite cabinet, and its bone china pieces, became incorporated into true reality 
forever. It would now undergo no more changes, and no one would see it but he. It was, to 
everyone else, in the past."