Luru Parz smiled thinly. 'Of course it is a realm beyond our experience. So Reth constructed metaphors, a kind of interface to make its features accessible to human minds. There is an island—a beach. You'll see a mountain, Pirius, and a sea. The mountain is order, and at its peak is that special dust grain that represents the initial singularity: the Big Bang, the unique event when all the universe's particles overlaid each other.'
Pirius said, 'And the sea?'
'The sea is the opposite. The sea is disorder—maximal entropy—the ocean of meaninglessness to which everything washes, in the end.'
-Exultant, Ch. 31