# Digest whorl.v005.n021

*The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 31 May 1997*

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### Charles Dye
*31 May 1997, 14:45*

This from Matthew Freestone <matthew at matthewf.demon.co.uk> :

> Infundibularity - a Crowley reference from 'Little, Big' Ch3, 'Call Them
> Doors':
> "The explanation is that the world inhabited by these beings is not the
> world we inhabit. It is another world entirely, and it is enclosed
> within this one; it is in a sense a universal retreating mirror image of
> this one, with a peculiar geometry I can only describe as
> infundibular...the further in you go, the bigger it gets."

I thought for sure you were making a reference to Kurt Vonnegut Jr.  If
"Little, Big" is infundibular, then "The Book of the New Sun" must be
chronosynclastically infundibular!  ("Infundibular," by the by, means
"funnel-shaped.")

raster at highfiber.com

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