He used bright colours in dabs and dashes and squiggles of paint. Royal panaques are light grey in colour patterned with dark grey squiggles. But in the brain, meaningless strings of squiggles become meaningful thoughts. When Alice speaks, her words appear as a series of meaningless squiggles. These squiggles come together to form long IFs that make up cytoskeletal networks. These states include nonfilamentous particles which combine to firm short IFs, or squiggles.