It was found, also, that the shape of the brain, at the foundation-point, was of the same general form or shape as the earth on which we dwell; that is to say, an oblate spheroid, whence, by experiment, it was deduced that such section of a figure, oblately spheroidal, was also the very best form of a magic mirror. Such a figure having two mathematically true and absolutely certain foci, so that a stream of magnetism being thrown upon one focus slid along the surface and returned to the centre of the other focus, from the centre of the fore-brain, thus completing a magnetic circuit and rendering the portion of brain in the line of contact exceedingly active, by reason of its increased magnetic play and motion of the brain-particles there situate.
Begin discussing materiality of strings
Think of a worm made of strings
A space time worm that leaves a space trace
Each string is a loop that is a time point
Fused loops
Loops are like rubber bands not chains
Imagine colour gradation of loops into past and future away from current time point loop
the reflection is a double, that is to say at the same time an other and a same. This ambivalence provokes in baroque thought an inversion of significations which makes identity fantastic (I am an other) and otherness reassuring (There is another world, but it is similar to this one).[2]
Oh, Kitty! how nice it would be if we could only get through into Looking-glass House! I’m sure it’s got, oh! such beautiful things in it! Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through.
think of the fourth dimension, not as a new region of space – a direction, as has been said, toward which we can never point– but as a principle of growth, of change, a measure of relations which cannot be expressed in terms of length, breadth and thickness