Wee drawing:

And a chunk of the written bit:

'He marked every detail of every sphere firmly in his memory and it was from this catalogue of behaviours that a pattern emerged. For each sphere there existed an exact opposite somewhere in the landscape, an antithesis upon which our understanding was hung; one confirmed what the other was not.'

(also, I made another blog for inspirational things. Click the ∞ to your right to get at it.)