[…] free-fallers falling less than freely into (predetermined?) places, confirming the grandness of grand, the heaviness of heavy, the truthfulness of lies, the numberness of numbers.

Somehow one's acceptance into humanity is dependent on the kind of Disney World assumption that differences are only on the surface.

The virus enters the body as the rabiate animal bites the organism and moves through the neurons towards the central nervous system with a preference for the cerebrum and the cerebellum (centripedal [sic] involvement), and from here they move through the peripheral nerves to infect the salivary glands and other end organs.

Bold deeds win admiration and, sometimes, medals.