This is because subjects in the new cyberian culture are other than the rational, autonomous individual.

Wah lau! You tekan him, ah? But he bigger than you, man!

The passions of fear and hope may arise when the chances are equal on both sides, and no superiority can be discover'd in the one above the other. Nay, in this situation the passions are rather the strongest, as the mind has then the least foundation to rest upon, and is toss'd with the greatest uncertainty. Throw in a superior degree of probability to the side of grief, you immediately see that passion diffuse itself over the composition, and tincture it into fear.

Aith is also a Kiln, that very important cooking or preparing place, from which the figures of all the old clay-formed gods came, no less than womblings or children, inasmuch as this word springs from the Gothic "Kilthei, the womb,” […]