I have been wondering for some time about when I was going to transcend this life as I know it. Wondering what impact reading books like Bart Kosko's Fuzzy Thinking and The Secret Life of Salvador Dali would have on me. I longed to transcend the clarity of linear black and white thinking and rise above into the fog of not only circular but into spherical thinking. This is about getting a glimpse of transcendence. I'm talking about the "Schlafli Double 6". Ludwig Schlafli was a mathematician. He lived and worked throughout the eighteen hundreds when information was transferred by the written word and delivered by horses and boats. He started out as a translator in the field of mathematics. When the French, Italians, Germans or Americans wanted to share information about mathematics, they took Ludwig along to translate for them. As a result he had the opportunity to learn from the leading mathematicians of his time. Imagine transferring such information from one genius to another. Imagine the skill he must have obtained in understanding new concepts. As a result of this, Schlafli developed some of math's most far reaching theories. Theories with names like The Theory of Manifold Continuity and Euclidean space Rn of n dimensions.

"Transcending Math", as it were. Schlafli was said by the experts in his field, "to have had the sad misfortune of those who are ahead of their time." Sadly even in the field of mathematics his main theories were "rejected (until after his death) by the academies of Vienna and Berlin because of their great length". Although he laid the groundwork for the scientific explosions that followed his death. I had just met a fellow at a party and he was telling me about a sculpture called the Schlafli Double 6. "Man if you look at this thing from one direction you will see five dimensions to it". He went on, "I can show this to you from five different sides and it looks like a completely different object from each side." Then he told me about Ludwig Schlafli and I was hooked. The "ever popular" Schlafli Double 6 sculpture is the coming to life of the work of a man who was ahead of his time and might have been onto an explanation of that which lies beyond the third dimension.

"Emptiness is form-form is emptiness." — Einstein
"Where do the abstract and mathematics rendezvous." — T.P. Wilson
"Time is in all things visual." — S.F.Johnson