How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
But they were all simply figures. A piercing light shone through them. They seemed frozen. It was the landscape itself which changed, Gordon saw at last, refracted by laws of its own. Time and space were themselves players, vast lands engulfing the figures a weave of future and past. There was no riverrun of years. The abiding loops of causality ran both forward and back. The timescape rippled with waves, roiled and flexed, a great beast in the dark sea. (46.93)
Going back to the ocean imagery from the previous quote, Gordon has come a long away and he has peered a little bit deeper into the ocean of time. But even at the end of the novel, time remains a "great beast in the dark sea," eluding the characters and, ultimately, the reader as well. For more on this, be sure to check out the "Symbols" section.