The equivalent of the tesseract made in our world is thus easy to visualize: it is a hopscotch pattern analogous to the paper one, but made of cubes. But it is incredibly difficult to imagine how to assemble the hypercube from the cross of cubes, where Dalí imagined Jesus crucified, or, better said, his human icon projected into our world from his inconceivable quadradimensional body. Because you need to rotate the projected cube in a way we do not comprehend—”hyper-up” or “ultra-down”—just as we do not perceive infrared or ultraviolet; our ear cannot hear ultrasounds, the same way that a
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