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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Gauguin who wrote (47362)2/23/2000 5:47:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
(Earth doesn't have corners, and it would be the eight corners, anyway.)

Why eight? Are we guilty of rampant cubism perhaps? The idea that a sphere is really a prepubescent cube? Perhaps the Ancients on high-dose Amanita sp. envisioned a tetrahedron. Four corners. Then there's an octahedron with six (and they ain't corners so much as VERtices,) eeber yabble yabble.
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