If someone took a completely external observer, someone who understood the world solely from a scientific point of view, without carrying any cultural or symbolic baggage, and asked them to contemplate the universe from outside... the conversation would be very different.
If in that context someone affirmed with total certainty that "the sun and moon are opposites," most likely that observer would frown, confused. They wouldn't see it as an evident truth, nor as a profound idea. Rather it would sound like a clumsy simplification, almost childish.
Because they're not.
Not in a real sense.
There's no intrinsic relationship of opposition between them. They're different bodies, with different functions, but the idea they represent contraries is something constructed. A human interpretation. A symbol, not a property.
Lloyd understood it.
That's why he began to rethink everything.
