There are various dials that you can turn up and down, they don't affect the laws of the place or the way that dark nothing runs all through like marbling in a good piece of beef, but they do change the tenor of it all, the lighting the tensility of the connections, and more generally the neighbourhood. Much better to lose yourself in one where everything is allowed, where all urgency has been unplugged, where the play of the eyes goes darting like minnows. It's probably true that most states can be turned inside out like a raincoat, but what use is a raincoat to a minnow? Just seeing, seeing, seeing.