Iain M. Banks - Excession epilogue lyrics

call me highway call me conduit call me lightning rod scout catalyst observer call me what you will I was there when I was required through me pa**ed the overarch bedeckants in their great sequential migration across the universes of [no translation] the marriage parties of the universe groupings of [no translation] and the emissaries of the lone bearing the laws of the new from the pulsing core the absolute centre of our nested home all this the rest and others I received as I was asked and transmitted as I was expected without fear favour or failure and only in the final routing of the channel I was part of did I discharge my duty beyond normal procedures when I moved from a position where my presence was causing conflict in the microenvironment concerned (see attached) considering it prudent to withdraw and reposition myself and my channel tract where for some long time at least it was again unlikely I would be discovered the initial a**ociation with the original entity peace makes plenty and the (minor) information loss ensuing was not as i would have wished but as it represented the first full such liaison in said microenvironment I a**ert thereby it fell within acceptable parameters I present the entity peace makes plenty and the other above mentioned collected/embraced/captured/self submitted entities as evidence of the environments general demeanour within its advanced/chaotic spectrum section and urge they be observed and studied free with the sole suggested proviso that they return to their home environment potentially accompanied by post a**ociation memory confiscation in the linked matter of suitability of the relevant inhabitants of the microenvironment for (further and ordered) communication or a**ociation it is my opinion that the reaction to my presence indicates a fundamental unreadiness as yet for such a signal honour lastly in recognition of the foregoing I wish now to be known hereafter as the excession thank you