It was known that the geologic time scale was "incomprehensibly vast", if unquantifiable. Cain responded by referring to members of the AWA as "reactionary, almost incomprehensibly censorious". Varela strode up to Reader and started arguing incomprehensibly in Spanish to the monolingual referee. At the same time, the bedridden, paralysed village elder Janet begins to speak incomprehensibly. Somehow, almost incomprehensibly, it all works.