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> The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly

> Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like.

>

> It wasn't infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting.

> Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is

> incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into

> which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very

> very big, so that it gave the impression of infinity far better than

> infinity itself.




This is from one of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. They're with Slartibartfast driving onto the factory floor for creating planets. Slartibartfast, as you recall, is a famous "world designer" who won an award for designing the Fjords of Norway.




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