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"Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiarity with sound. Not loneliness, for that requires knowledge of others. But still, faintly, so tenuous that if it were any less it wouldn't exist at all: awareness." Robert Sawyer starts off this book by trying to give the reader a sense of an awareness of being. This intro attracted me to read this book because it made sense. Sawyer describes darkness, silence, and loneliness by contrasting them from an opposite identity. By using this literary device, he can draw in his readers, such as me. This book particularly stood out because of this introduction. Every other fiction book, that I have read, starts off by setting up a background for the main character/characters. This introdution does that because it makes you think of how much awareness Caitlin Decter, the main character who is blind, could possibly have by defining awareness in a unique way.