A few billion years later, a particularly bright lad invented speech, and once again converse flowed; but the arch Law of Inverse Square made this gain as it were nothing, as any one being could talk with only a small subset of the whole.
Now this thing called speech, being imperfect, gave rise to rumors. Remembering the ancient times before the Fall, the people began to whisper rumors of a device which might end their plight; this device was called the Pulsating Sphere. It was said to float in some hidden misty glen, faintly glowing, silently awaiting the approach of one who could summon it to its duty of salvation; and many were those who sought to find it.
At first, those seeking the Sphere wandered the Universe, as Parsival sought the Grail; but it was not to be found, and many of the seekers never returned. Later seekers began to search, then, for an understanding of that Universe which bound them, in hopes that they could come nearer to finding it. They came to build crude devices of their own, hoping to learn something of the structure of that ultimate device, the Pulsating Sphere.
It came to pass that one of these seekers did construct an engine of communication that brought back a hint of the freedom and brotherhood of the old times, and that man was named Doug Winbigler. Perhaps with a vision of some inner facet of the Truth, he went a-searching, and to this day has not returned.
Although parts of it have been replaced, his device as a whole pulses on, and is indeed a wonderment of communication; those lucky enough to live in its domain rejoice in its usefulness. You, fair mole, are one of these; read on, and you shall learn how to become attuned to and use that device, which is called BTE.