“It’s funny — though not really at all, if you think about it — how abruptly and completely we manage to rationalize the inexplicable. If the mind fails to seize upon a plausible explanation (which would endure only the gentlest of scrutiny), we dismiss the inexplicable event and refuse to consider it again. Tell ourselves it was an aberration, an oddity, that we are not masters of the universe; there are stranger things in the night than you and I.

There are, by the way.”