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-> It was not at right angles to the floor. But as soon as I have said this, I hasten to add that this way of putting it is a later reconstruction. What one actually felt at the moment was that the column of light was vertical but the floor was not horizontal--the whole room seemed to have heeled over as if it were on board ship. The impression, however produced, was that this creature had reference to some horizontal, to some whole system of directions, based outside the Earth, and that its mere presence imposed that alien system on me and abolished the terrestrial horizontal.
-->-- ''Literature/{{Perelandra}}''

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->Fully describing [[AngelicAbomination Keter]] would require a dozen theoretical mathematicians and physicists and at least as many hours in front of a whiteboard
-->--''TabletopGame/AdeptusEvangelion Beta 0.5 [[GameMaster GM’s]] Guide''
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--> '''Mac:''' But... it's not natural! We fell ''down!'' Not ''up'', we fell ''down!''
--> '''Bloo:''' This place is crazy, it's crazy...

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--> -> '''Mac:''' But... it's not natural! We fell ''down!'' Not ''up'', we fell ''down!''
--> -> '''Bloo:''' This place is crazy, it's crazy... I'm so hungry, I'm crazy...
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->''After falling through a TrapDoor, Bloo and Mac land - by falling out of it onto the roof.''
--> '''Mac:''' But... it's not natural! We fell ''down!'' Not ''up'', we fell ''down!''
--> '''Bloo:''' This place is crazy, it's crazy...
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends''
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->Inside, this pyramid does not behave as pyramids should. The huge chamber in the centre houses a [[BottomlessPit downward chasm into the fathomless nothing]]. The apex lacks a capstone, allowing moonlight to penetrate into the [[EldritchLocation eldritch dim]]. Moonlight and stars. Yes. Seeing the stars must taunt it so. [[EldritchAbomination The gnawing hunger]]. An event horizon licking its lips with a tongue of concentrated gravity.
-->--'''The Buzzing,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''
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-->-- '''John Hodgman''', ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise''

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-->-- '''John Hodgman''', '''Creator/JohnHodgman''', ''Literature/TheAreasOfMyExpertise''
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->There is no magical barrier surrounding the [[WizardingSchool Light College]] and no spell hiding it from prying eyes. Instead, it is built where lines of arcane convergence have created a location hidden within folds of space.
->The Light College can be found on the left bank of the Reik in an area that a mere century ago was the home of many rising merchant families. Fortunes change, and [[WrongSideOfTheTracks the area is now lower class and sinking even further]]. The alleys and roads crossing the folds of space link up, but mapping them is impossible; the folds left by the Light College mean that the geometry of that area cannot properly be represented in three dimensions, let alone two. People who live there get used to finding their way around and try not to think too hard about the strangeness. Those who do are rumoured to either [[GoMadFromTheRevelation go mad]] or become wizards.
-->--''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Paths Of The Damned - Spires Of Altdorf''
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->I turned my feet towards the far horizon, and still [[EldritchLocation the city]] was before me. Once more I turned, and again, and yet another turning. With each freshly chosen course, I drew nearer to the city gates, and its towers and walls loomed higher. The gateway was the end of every road, and despair gnawed my heart.
-->--'''Liber Malefic,''' ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Chaos Demons Army Book (7th Edition)''
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->I felt myself drawn to the mystic light. I reached out, closing it in my hands. The faint glow escaped my fingers and began to spark brightly and spirit me away, unlocking alien memories of spiraling towers, endless deserts, and impossible geometry.
-->-- '''Daniel''', ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent''
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->''The classroom was high up in the castle - on the fifth floor - and Harry knew that was as much explanation as he'd get for where a room like this was supposed to fit. It was becoming clear that Hogwarts simply did not ''have'' a geometry, Euclidean or otherwise; it had connections, not directions.''
-->--'''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'''
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->I can barely glance at the dimensions of [[EldritchLocation the pavilion]]'s interior; my mind shudders away from the sheer impossibility of it. Where from the outside the pavilion seemed merely huge, from within it seems nigh-on infinite! [[DenOfIniquity Endless plains of satin cushions and deep carpets, divans, beds, pools, baths and fountains]] stretch away from me in every direction as far as my eyes can see. And not just upon one plane - there is no separation between up and down. Where there should be walls or ceilings, there are instead yet more cushions, rugs and divans.
-->--''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Liber Chaotica]]''
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-->-- '''John Hodgman''', ''TheAreasOfMyExpertise''

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-->-- '''John Hodgman''', ''TheAreasOfMyExpertise''
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-->-- '''Fanfic/TheLastGreatTimeWar''

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->'''Jerry:''' ''(on the phone)'' "Well, what street are you on?"\\
'''Kramer:''' ''(looks out of the phone booth)'' "I'm on 1st and 1st... [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity How can the same street intersect with itself?]] I must be at the nexus of the universe!"

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->'''Jerry:''' ''(on the phone)'' "Well, Well, what street are you on?"\\
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'''Kramer:''' ''(looks out of the phone booth)'' "I'm I'm on 1st and 1st... 1st… [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity How can the same street intersect with itself?]] I must be at the nexus of the universe!"universe!


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->'''Jame''': But are you sure this thing is real? It's so small.\\
'''Marc''': Only on the outside. The Builders could be very playful about space.
-->--''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath''
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->He looked around him and saw various constructions and buildings of every size, shape, and form. They all had one thing in common: they were impossible. Straight vertical angles connected parts at different horizontal distances. Pillars scattered everywhere that supported straight beams. Things far in the distance cut in front of things in the foreground. Slopes and steps went in endless circles, always going up or down but never getting any higher or lower. Wherever things could not touch, they did.
-->-- '''Fanfic/TheLastGreatTimeWar''
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-->-- ''{{Seinfeld}}'', "The Maid" (1998)

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-->-- ''{{Seinfeld}}'', ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', "The Maid" (1998)
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->another dude falls into a hole on the structure
->that is only there
->because the dude who built this shit
->was SUCH A SHITTY ARCHITECT
->that he BROKE GEOMETRY
->like all the veticals are horizontals
->and and the parallels are fucking
->and what the fuck is a cosecant?

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-->-- ''' MCEscher'''

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-->-- ''' MCEscher'''
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->Why do even have physics?!

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->Why do we even have physics?!



-->-- ''' M. C. Escher'''

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-->--'''Numerous ''{{Series/DoctorWho}}'' companions'''

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->It's BiggerOnTheInside!
-->--'''Numerous ''{{Series/DoctorWho}}'' companions
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'''Kramer:''' ''(looks out of the phone booth)'' "I'm on 1st and 1st... [[NewYorkCity How can the same street intersect with itself?]] I must be at the nexus of the universe!"

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'''Kramer:''' ''(looks out of the phone booth)'' "I'm on 1st and 1st... [[NewYorkCity [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity How can the same street intersect with itself?]] I must be at the nexus of the universe!"
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-->-- '''Mirror Girl''', ''BlindLake''

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-->-- '''Mirror Girl''', ''BlindLake''
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-> I ''told'' you we should have taken the stairs. All these temples have stupid hyper geometry.

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-> Why do even have physics?!

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-> You're not out ''there'', you're in ''here''. It's different in here. More different the farther inside you go.

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-->-'''John Hodgman''', ''TheAreasOfMyExpertise''



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-->—''' M. C. Escher'''

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-->- ''[[http://bettermyths.com/boats-an-elder-gods-only-weakness/ Boats: An Elder God's Only Weakness]]''


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->that is only there
->because the dude who built this shit
->was SUCH A SHITTY ARCHITECT
->that he BROKE GEOMETRY
->like all the veticals are horizontals
->and and the parallels are fucking
->and what the fuck is a cosecant?
-->- ''[[http://bettermyths.com/boats-an-elder-gods-only-weakness/ Boats: An Elder God's Only Weakness]]''

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-->-- '''Black Mage''', ''{{Eight Bit Theater}}''

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-->-- '''Black Mage''', ''{{Eight ''Webcomic/{{Eight Bit Theater}}''



-->-- '''Black Mage''', ''{{Eight Bit Theater}}''

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->''Are you sure that a floor cannot also be a ceiling? Are you absolutely certain that you go up when you walk up a staircase?''

-->—''' M. C. Escher'''

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->''666-4850—A normal-looking house that, on closer inspection, has no right angles.''
-->-'''John Hodgman''', ''TheAreasOfMyExpertise''
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