> You are looking directly into the centre of the brain, a secret and mysterious place where all the most vital functions that keep us alive and conscious are t

> You are looking directly into the centre of the brain, a secret and mysterious place where all the most vital functions that keep us alive and conscious are to be found. Above you, like the great vault of a cathedral roof, are the deep veins of the brain – the Internal Cerebral Veins, and beyond them the basal veins of Rosenthal and then in the midline the Great Vein of Galen, dark blue and glittering in the light of the microscope This felt like I was reading Tolkien mixed with a bit of William Gibson. Fantastic.