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{{quote|I ''told'' you we should have taken the stairs. All these temples have stupid hyper geometry. |'''Black Mage''', ''[[
{{quote|Why do even have physics?!|'''Black Mage''', ''[[
{{quote|You're not out ''there'', you're in ''here''. It's different in here. More different the farther inside you go.|'''Mirror Girl''', ''[[Blind Lake]]''}}
{{quote|'''Jerry:''' ''(on the phone)'' "Well, what street are you on?"
'''Kramer:''' ''(looks out of the phone booth)'' "I'm on 1st and 1st... [[New York City|How can the same street intersect with itself?]] I must be at the nexus of the universe!"|''[[Seinfeld]]'', "The Maid" (1998)}}
{{quote|''666-4850—A normal-looking house that, on closer inspection, has no right angles.''|'''John Hodgman''', ''[[The Areas of My Expertise]]''}}
{{quote|''Are you sure that a floor cannot also be a ceiling? Are you absolutely certain that you go up when you walk up a staircase?''|'''
{{quote|another dude falls into a hole on the structure
that is only there
because the dude who built this shit
was SUCH A SHITTY ARCHITECT
that he BROKE GEOMETRY
like all the veticals are horizontals
and and the parallels are fucking
and what the fuck is a cosecant?|''[http://bettermyths.com/boats-an-elder-gods-only-weakness/ Boats: An Elder God's Only Weakness]''}}
{{quote|…World Fantasy Convention, held in a Docklands hotel whose architect was badly frightened when young by an [[M. C. Escher|Escher]] print. We're talking eldritch, inhuman geometries here, with uncanny corridor angles and fire exits impossible for sane minds to comprehend. The [[World Fantasy Award]]s – spectacularly hideous caricatures of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s head – seemed quite at home.
|'''[[David Langford]]''', [//ansible.uk/sfx/sfx034.html in] SFX magazine }}
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