The Fourth Dimension by Rudy Rucker

Author:Rudy Rucker
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2014-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

The Globbers had appeared quite shrunken and distorted before we entered the Door. But now, as we pressed forward, they took on their familiar, albeit Irregular, appearance. Could it be that we had shrunken to their size? All around us lay the endless expanse of Globland. Was this really the interior of some magical Disk? My thoughts were interrupted by Una’s excited cries.

UNA: Oh, look, dear Square, Flatland is now a Disk itself!

I (turning to look back): Indeed. Perfect Symmetry prevails. As seen through the Space Tunnel, Flatland is a Disk in Globland, and Globland is a Disk in Flatland. All this have I wrought for your pleasure, my Lady.

UNA: It is well, my Lord. My Husband cannot disturb us here in this enchanted Land.

I: Then let us dally, fairest Una.

UNA: Freely, my Lord … yet look into the Disk of Flatland. There slides my Mate, A Hexagon!

I: He is small and puny. He is an ant.

UNA: But, oh, dear Square, he waxes as he nears the Disk’s edge!

I (to a nearby Globber): How now, sirrah, wilst grant me a boon?

GLOBBER: Blub, yubba, gloop.

I (seizing him with my Mouth): Just stretch yourself (mmpf) like this (mmpfmmp) and this, dear friend. And in such wise do curtain our Seraglio.

The deed was done, and Una and I were free to take our pleasure. My perfect content was marred only by one question: How was it that passing through the Space Tunnel turned Inside to Outside, and Outside to In?

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