"I suppose I am moderately devout, but I don't feel impelled to pray in the high places. (I'm more likely to cry out of the depths!) Instead, I climb upward to bask."

~ Uncle Rogi

The Surveillance
(Book One of Intervention)
by Julian May

First of all, Julian May is delightful -- and a little bit scary. She has entire worlds planned out and foreshadows things that materialize eight books later. It's amazing.

In this little section, Uncle Rogi explains his desire to climb mountains -- and that of other people with metafaculties. These two sentences struck me -- is there a difference between "prayer" and "basking"? I think so. And it's the basking that I've been missing.