" Numinous," Ursula said, breaking the silence eventually. " There's a spark of the divine in the world -- not God, er'er done with God, but something. Is it love? Not silly romantic love, but something more profound..." " I think it's perhaps something we don't have a name for," Teddy said. " We want to name everything. Perhaps that's where we've gone wrong." " 'And whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.' Having dominion over everything has been a terrible curse." Afterwards -- because it turned out there was an afterwards for Teddy -- he resolved that he would try always to be kind. It was the best he could do. It was all that he could do. And it might be love, after all. "