Vormance, Mycelium, "The Nature of Expeditions" and [Mycelial] Colonization

[Mark Kohut]

Bled Welder writes: 
Pg. 131 "The Transnoctial Discussion Group...

'We learned once how to break horses and ride them for long distances, with oceangoing ships we left flat surfaces and went into Reimann space, we crossed solid land and deep seas, and colonized what we found,' said Dr. Vormance.  'Now we have taken the first few wingbeats of what will allow us to begin colonizing the sky.  Somehwhere in it, God Dwells in His heavenly City.  How far into that unmapped wilderness shall we journey before we find Him?  Will He withdraw before our advance, continue to withdraw into the Infinite?  Will He send back to us divine Agents, to help, to deceive, to turn us away?  Will we leave settlements inthe Sky, along our invasion routes, or will we choose to be wanderers, striking camp each morning, content with nothing more than Zion?  And what of colonizing additional dimensions beyond the third?  Colonize Time.  Why not?'

'Because, sir,' objected Dr. Templeton Blope, of the University of the Outer Hebrides, '--we are limited to three.'

You gotta love that.

MK: I do love that and there is this:
Repeat: "Somehwhere in it, God Dwells in His heavenly City.  How far into that unmapped wilderness shall we journey before we find Him?  Will He withdraw before our advance, continue to withdraw into the Infinite?  Will He send back to us divine Agents, to help, to deceive, to turn us away? "

M & D (p. 543) " one more hope in the realm of the Subjunctive, one more grasp of the last radiant whispers of the last bights of Robe-hem, billowing 
Aether-driven at the back of the ever-departing Deity." 
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