“My God, it’s full of stars!”*
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December 27, 2012, 10:39 am
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I’m no mathematician, and I won’t claim that the imagery used of the ‘artifact’ in Communion of Dreams was intended to reference this, but if you think about it (and have read the entire book), this kind of explanation would work with higher orders of dimensional reality:
Mathematical Impressions: The Surprising Menger Sponge Slice
Jim Downey
*Of course. Which also fits with CoD, since it was an explicit homage to the first movie/book.
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