“To each of us, through our own particular history, has been given the potential for participating in a unique series of disclosures: the capacity to bring certain creatures and certain things into the brilliance of a more-than-reality. This potential is not so much a talent as a responsibility. When we fail to realize it, we are bottomlessly guilty.”

Kaja Silverman, World Spectators (Stanford University Press: Stanford, CA, 2000) 48.