Ovo je relevantni isječak iz tog romana:
Serpentine proceeded to explain that just as it would be possible
for any number of practically two-dimensional universes to lie side
by side, like sheets of paper, in a three-dimensional space, so in
the many-dimensional space about which the ill-equipped human mind
is still slowly and painfully acquiring knowledge, it is possible
for an innumerable quantity of practically three-dimensional
universes to lie, as it were, side by side and to undergo a roughly
parallel movement through time. The speculative work of Lonestone
and Cephalus had long since given the soundest basis for the belief
that there actually were a very great number of such space-and-time
universes, parallel to one another and resembling each other,
nearly but not exactly, much as the leaves of a book might resemble
one another. All of them would have duration, all of them would be
gravitating systems--