The moment Erm Kaslo\u2019s flesh touched the substance of the entity, he understood everything \u2014 but only for that moment. Then it turned out that everything was far, far too much for a human brain to take in all at once. He felt as if his skull was straining not to burst its seams, and as if the mind it housed was a thimble into which someone had crammed a barrel\u2019s worth of knowledge. Just sorting all the information into gross categories would be the work of several lifetimes; subdividing it into manageable portions would take millennia. | Copyright 2015 by Matthew Hughes. Narrated by Paul Boehmer.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices