Comments on: Directions

By: Griffin

Griffin — Mon, 19 May 2025 14:57:29 +0000

This is really just an old wives myth based around the Roman-Latin names for left and right… Sinister et Dexter, respectively.

By: vewatkin

vewatkin — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 01:28:32 +0000

You’re correct. Right and left are switched in that description.

By: LA

LA — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 18:02:44 +0000

The top right hand is a right hand while the other three are left hands. [Credit: Unknown] The top right hand points the correct direction to turn to the next page, and is thus the correct hand. This sets up a principle used throughout the book in which the non-matching item in a set is correct.

I am confused. To me the top right hand is a LEFT hand, its the other 3 which are RIGHT hands, what’s going on here?

By: vewatkin

vewatkin — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:41:36 +0000

completely inapplicable, but sure, why not

By: William Brandon McLaughlin

William Brandon McLaughlin — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:39:03 +0000

Zeno’s paradox?

By: Beelzebibble

Beelzebibble — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 03:14:36 +0000

Yes, and when you’re in the middle of doing so, the text of one room is aligned with the picture of a different room, with all the pages in between bunched up in your hand.

This is a whole new vista of MAZE dungeoneering!

By: vewatkin

vewatkin — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 02:56:25 +0000

I suppose you could temporally divide the act of turning to another page.

By: Beelzebibble

Beelzebibble — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 02:31:58 +0000

The first half-step is reading the text and the second half-step is looking at the picture.

Boom

By: vewatkin

vewatkin — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 22:31:54 +0000

I don’t see how a step could be meaningfully divided into fractions in this context.

By: William Brandon McLaughlin

William Brandon McLaughlin — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 18:04:46 +0000

If it only takes sixteen steps to complete the journey, then (hypothetically speaking) that would entail that it could also be finished in thirty two half-steps, right?