The idea that inner experience is made up out of qualia, a dance or kaleidoscope of changing qualia suggests that a theory of consciousness could identify a core language of symbolic equivalents for these atomic particles of experience, but the relation of experience to language is a necessarily oblique one. A direct mapping would fail through objectification, whereas what we observe is that experience is best evoked through metaphor and situation, through the very element in art that is the least formal and yet the most seemingly natural, but also though what defies expectation in the most intelligent, least mechanical way. Experience is not made of qualia, they are merely something that boils off it, is fractionated out of it.