I read Gulliver's three voyages, as a child, and added to my still-unconscious reservoir of information about scale and infinitude....Always intrigued, as a young boy, by the Disney TRUE LIFE ADVENTURES, it was another dozen years before the coalescing ideas surfaced into conscious thinking and virtual manipulation of heretofore incomprehensible mutating mathematical visualizations from the Matma.
''So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea
Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey,
And these have smaller fleas to bit 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum."
Johnathan Swift 1733

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