A pot clashes with its lid In someones hurried kitchen A telephone boils off the hook. Outside, a car door An airplane pulls a drag of cloud. muffled thunder.

She was beneath them, that was their perception.

The perception is that bigger is better.

Like to hear a vampire folk tale?" Sarasti asked.

"Vampires have folk tales?"

He took it for a yes. "A laser is assigned to find the darkness. Since it lives in a room without doors, or windows, or any other source of light, it thinks this will be easy. But everywhere it turns it sees brightness. Every wall, every piece of furniture it points at is brightly lit. Eventually it concludes there is no darkness, that light is everywhere.

Perception does not define who we are, but it does define where we are limited, and where we are not yet free.

There's this perception that we don't like playing with (Iverson) or something, and that's not the case. I still can't figure out how he can miss that many days and come back and play like that.