“If someone were able to research this idea properly, if they could quantify the characters, images and emotions that appear in dreams, strip them of their motifs, and apply statistics, including all those correlation tests that work like a magic glue, linking things together that would seem impossible to connect, maybe they would discover some sense in it all, like the pattern according to which, here in this world, stock exchanges function, or large airports operate–a map of subtle connections or fixed timetables. Incalculable presentiments and precise algorithms.”

- From: House of Day, House of Night, Olga Tokarczuk, 1998