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'We see everyone on every side,
but no-one sees us.
It is the darkness of Adam's sin
that prevents our being counted.'

-- Mider, in Tochmarc Étaíne

'Often it seems as if we are separated from the Otherworld by no barrier save concealment... [It] is nearby, perhaps indeed immediately present, but hidden and alien as well. The whole of the Otherworld may lie beneath a single well or hill; or a single Otherworld palace may be linked to points far distant from each other in the geography of mortals.

The Otherworld is not, properly speaking, assigned different locations [in literature] by the Irish: rather, is exists in no definable spatial relationship with the mortal realm."

-- John Cary, Proceedings... 1987, Harvard

'message from Lagos'

- "My whole attention is fixed on you"

- "Your attention is not fixed on me"

- "Expecting to hear from you"

- "The distance between us causes delay in sending me a reply"

-- What we have spoken is kept a secret