Great Orm by Brian Butler

Inspired by a trip to the Scottish Highlands.(A' Ghàidhealtachd) A certain Loch there. A creature who may or may not dwell therein. Several unusual coincidences.
The boundaries get fuzzed in other ways. If I have discovered a new way to look at a problem, the discovery is likely to have the feel of news for me. But I may decide I have to use a knowledge based mode to explain it. Perhaps, if I come from a scholarly environment, I believe knowledge has higher status than news. Or perhaps I do not think I can do justice to my discovery in a news-based mode—and if news, like speech, has a limited capacity to cope with complexity and my discovery is complex, my belief may have some validity. The recipient probably will duly register the resulting product as knowledge and may miss the sense of discovery altogether.

One must understand the Universe perfectly, and be utterly indifferent to its pressure. These are the virtues which constitute a Master of the Temple. Yet each man must act what he will; for he is energized by his own nature; for he can no more be destroyed, thus, his sorrows are but shadows—he could not see them if he kept his gaze fixed on his goal, the Sun

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