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Phelony assumed he must be a mathematician because he had one hand shoved down his pants and in the other he held the archaic text, the historical and neo-religious basis for the name of Ext, Irving Kaplansky's Fields and Rings, second edition.

He's astonished that anyone could visualize a hypersphere. Hasn't he read Gamow's One, Two, Three... Infinity? Later on, an Alan Turing lookalike is rescued by friendly music-loving beings from the fourth dimension. Sigh.