Lewis in Weight of Glory makes the point that for any higher thing (like a three-dimensional cube) to be transposed onto a lower medium (like a two-dimensional piece of paper) two things must be true: a) the thing must lose something (in this case, a dimension) and b) in the lower medium, the transposition will be built of borrowed parts, parts which have another meaning (in other words, a triangle on a 2D paper can mean either the receding corner of a cube or, simply, a triangle).
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