ET- Paper Fibers

“You like that? Here, here are some more.” Elliott opened a book on the floor, and he and the monster looked at it.

  “These are goblins . . . these are gnomes . . .”

  The monster’s eyes went through a series of focusing arrangements, including one that revealed the origin of the fibers composing the paper and back out again, to the painted, potbellied little creature, not altogether unlike himself, staring up from the page.

  Had other travelers been stranded here, long ago?

- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in His Adventure on Earth, chapter 4