We are a book written in DNA code.

This is not metaphor; there is a literalness to reality that is entirely and perfectly expressed through its myriad manifestations.

The real problem we face is interpretation. A living linguistic organism evades definition through adaptive permutations which are the self-authoring of mystery and wonderment.

Eventually we will decipher the text when we discover that the universe is our own autobiography, a roman à clef that is experienced as an eternal present tense.

— sfnate