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Notes XI

843	A VVILD AM: IKON ORB See note to line 22. Our guide has several ways of "manifesting" and pointing things out, but speaks only in anagrams of his own name. As Richard Feynman has pointed out, "While partial reflection by a single surface is a deep mystery...partial reflection by two or more surfaces is absolutely mind-boggling. ...This phenomenon of colors produced by the partial reflection of white light by two surfaces is called iridescence."	Titlepage Part I Notes I Part II Notes II Part III Notes III Part IV Notes IV Part V Notes V Part VI Notes VI Part VII Notes VII Part VIII Notes VIII Part IX Notes IX Part X Notes X Part XI Notes XI Part XII Notes XII ©, Acknowledgments The Author

847	this zero O. Something like the Russian word for lake. Drowsy...almost asleep.... Then some car's headlights passed into the room, slid slowly across the ceiling and dove down the wall--where they vanished. No sound of a car. The faucet dripped on. Again awake.

858	Gnomon A sundial's shadowcasting blade.


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