Chiang spoke slowly and watched the younger gull
ever so carefully. "To fly as fast as thought,
to anywhere that is," he said, "you must begin
by knowing that you have already arrived . . . "
The trick, according to Chiang, was for Jonathan to
stop seeing himself as trapped inside a limited body
that had a forty-two-inch wingspan and performance
that could be plotted on a chart. The trick was to
know that his true nature lived, as perfect as an
unwritten number, everywhere at once across space
and time.
Richard Bach (1936- )
_Jonathan Livingston Seagull_ [1970]
