sometimes words have two meanings

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The fourth dimension offers a shock to the mind accustomed to practical handling of matter, because all our experiences of measurement or dimensionality are ultimately founded upon matter possessing but three dimensions, so that we have great difficulty in accepting the reality of a direction not contained in our space or our matter but definitely at right angles to every line that can be drawn within the matter and space which contain all our ordinary experiences.

Our idea of space is partial, and like many another of our ideas needs modification to accommodate it to fuller knowledge. 

What we think of as space is more probably only some part of space made perceptible. It may be that our space bears a relation to space in its totality analogous to that which the images cast by a magic lantern bear to the wall on which these images are made to appear—a wall with solidity, thickness, extension in other and more directions than those embraced within the wavering circle of light which would correspond to our sense of the cosmos.

In other words, perhaps that which we think of as space is only so much of it as our limited sensuous mechanism is able to apprehend.


—Claude Bragdon
A Primer of Higher Space: The Fourth Dimension
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There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to Heaven
When she gets there, she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word, she can get what she came for
And she's buying a stairway to Heaven

There's a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure
'Cause you know, sometimes words have two meanings
In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven
It makes me wonder

There's a feeling I get when I look to the west
And my spirit is crying for leaving
In my thoughts, I have seen rings of smoke through the trees
And the voices of those who stand looking
It really makes me wonder

And it's whispered that soon if we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason
And a new day will dawn for those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
And there's still time to change the road you're on
And it makes me wonder

Your head is humming, and it won't go, in case you don't know
The piper's calling you to join him
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow, and did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind, oh-oh?

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show

How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all,
To be a rock and not to roll
And she's buying a stairway to Heaven

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