“I know what this is,” Quan said. “Tell me,” the Carpenter said. “It’s the substance that casts all those shadows in the other world. The circles there are copies of the spheres here. The squares there are copies of the cubes here. The triangles there are copies of the pyramids here. Earth was a flatland. This is . . . well, the inside is bigger than the outside, isn’t it? How many dimensions are there?” “Far more than you have seen yet,” the King said, laughing.
