¶ Tetrascroll (1)
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Tetrascroll:
"Because a bear’s foot is itself a triangle, Goldy makes a pattern of Big Sky Bear’s footprints as he walks or runs eastwardly along the beach. Goldy uses the successive triangles as the frames for the succession of illustrations of her conversation with the bears. She says the ribbon is like a scenario film strip with the successive triangular pictures overlapping instead of being vertically separated. ‘You may notice’ says Wee Bear, ‘that the starry pattern of the chair Cassiopeia left for me looks like the first three triangular frames of that scenario film strip.’ ‘Yes,’ Goldy replies, 'and I see that if I print these triangular frames of the scenario strip of overlapping conceptual events on a heavy paper ribbon, that the strip can be spooled onto a tetrahedron.
“This will make a tetrahedron book that can be progressively unrolled from a tetrahedron at one end and rerolled to form another tetrahedron at the other end of the strip with the progressively exposed strip in between telling the picture story-- the scenario-- of nonsimultaneous Universe with both the four-dimensional tetrahedral othernesses of tomorrow and”
