Exhilarating

The understanding made Leonel's eyes glow brightly. That was right, that was what the Life Grade was always meant to represent. It was meant to be a living being's attempt to create something with a life of its own, a single item formed of many that somehow worked as though it had always just been one item. 

That was the beauty of the Life Grade, a seamless creation… one that reflected real life itself. 

That was also how he had to think of Simplicity. He had been so close, and yet so far at the same time. 

'This is why how you comprehend something is more important than that you've comprehended it… I was already aware that the dictionary used something about the environment to elicit changes to its structure and deliver its responses, but it never really slid into place until now…'

The dictionary was akin to a world. This world had the influence of evolution pressing it down from all sides.