The circularity of influence was like a trail of dominoes falling in four dimensions. Each time one slapped another and fell to the ground, from a different vantage point it appeared knocked upright, ready to be slapped and fall again.  Everything was not merely relative, it was--how to put it? --relevant. Representational. Revealing. Referential and reverential both.
Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men
influence, perception, perspective