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Question for my fellow geeks. I was talking to a friend tonight and we were talking about A Wrinkle in Time and we both mentioned that after we had read the book as kids we spent a lot of time drawing cubes on paper and trying to cube the cube.
What we're trying to figure out is how odd this was. Anyone else attempt to do this, or were we alone?
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quote:Originally posted by Strider: Question for my fellow geeks. I was talking to a friend tonight and we were talking about A Wrinkle in Time and we both mentioned that after we had read the book as kids we spent a lot of time drawing cubes on paper and trying to cube the cube.
What we're trying to figure out is how odd this was. Anyone else attempt to do this, or were we alone?
You are NOT alone. Believe me.
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When I was in junior high, I went to a camp for gifted and talented kids and there were some of us who spent the whole night of the dance (one of the culminating events of the camp) using string and desks in an attempt to create a replica of the "fourth dimension". Yeah... we were geeks.
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I was sorry to hear about her death. A Wrinkle in Time was one of the first science fiction books I read.
I keep staring at those cubes and I still can't get it to look like anything but a three-dimensional mess of edges. I guess I'm just not one of those people who "get" higher dimensions like that. Oh well.
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quote:Originally posted by ketchupqueen: She lived a really, really full life. And I know she is at peace in death-- everything she wrote spoke of the power of love and faith. But like all her fans, I am saddened to lose her.
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