We live in a physical world whose properties we have come to know well through long familiarity.
Time is of no importance. All that counts is the duration necessary for a seamless development.
I gave his request all the consideration that it deserved.
I realised that the search for the Knowledge has encouraged us to think of the House as if it were a sort of riddle to be unravelled, a text to be interpreted, and that if ever we discover the Knowledge, then it will be as if the Value has been wrested from the House and all that remains will be mere scenery.