Elise/Introduction

“The Cop. She has a steel grid in front of her mind, and for anything in the outer world to reach her it first has to squeeze through the bars of that grid.
Information has to be broken into small cubes; information and data packaged in two-dimensional squares are preferable to three-dimensional cubes however:
they pass through the grid more quickly and once they reach the Cop’s mind take up less space there.” ― Russell Banks, Lost Memory of Skin