Alien Geometries/Quotes

I told you we should have taken the stairs. All these temples have stupid hyper geometry.

—Black Mage, Eight Bit Theater

Why do even have physics?!

—Black Mage, Eight Bit Theater

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

—Mirror Girl, Blind Lake

Jerry: (on the phone) "Well, what street are you on?"

Kramer: (looks out of the phone booth) "I'm on 1st and 1st... How can the same street intersect with itself? I must be at the nexus of the universe!"

—Seinfeld, "The Maid" (1998)

666-4850—A normal-looking house that, on closer inspection, has no right angles.

—John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise

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

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?

—Boats: An Elder God's Only Weakness

…World Fantasy Convention, held in a Docklands hotel whose architect was badly frightened when young by an Escher print. We're talking eldritch, inhuman geometries here, with uncanny corridor angles and fire exits impossible for sane minds to comprehend. The World Fantasy Awards – spectacularly hideous caricatures of H.P. Lovecraft's head – seemed quite at home.

—David Langford, in SFX magazine