“We don’t know. We just don’t know. All we know is what the Vores have communicated to us so far.”
“Right,” Spider said, nodding, hating every moment of this nonsense. “And when you say ‘we’ and ‘us’, what you really mean is ‘you’, yes?”
“They communicate through a living channel, yes, and that is, of course, me.”" - Meaning and context.">
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Chapter 18 (p. 219)
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“So what is this Final Secret? Any Ideas?” Spider asked, trying to sound reasonable.
“We don’t know. We just don’t know. All we know is what the Vores have communicated to us so far.”
“Right,” Spider said, nodding, hating every moment of this nonsense. “And when you say ‘we’ and ‘us’, what you really mean is ‘you’, yes?”
“They communicate through a living channel, yes, and that is, of course, me.”

— K. A. Bedford

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "“So what is this Final Secret? Any Ideas?” Spider asked, trying to sound reasonable.
“We don’t know. We just don’t know. All we know is what the Vores have communicated to us so far.”
“Right,” Spider said, nodding, hating every moment of this nonsense. “And when you say ‘we’ and ‘us’, what you really mean is ‘you’, yes?”
“They communicate through a living channel, yes, and that is, of course, me.”" in the context of "Chapter 18 (p. 219)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "K. A. Bedford" (Quotes, Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait (2008): All page numbers are from the trade paperback first edition published by Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing Nominated for the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award. ) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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About K. A. Bedford

Kenneth Adrian Bedford (born 1963), better known under the pseudonym of K. A. Bedford, is an Australian writer of science fiction.