... 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.
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