Writing Stuff, but not a quote
I have decided that this is part of the flying monkey story that doesn't have any flying monkeys in it. I've further decided that the flying monkey sans monkey story is about creeping credentialism, Edgar Allan Poe (okay, only peripherally), cosmology, and magic.
It may also incorporate a story that I started a good number of years ago and never got anywhere with called, "Telekinesis is Not Scientific." On the other hand, it might not.