[…]whether through the first officer's want of perspicuity or my own stupidity, I was not a bit the wiser for the explanation.

Matter on the physical plane has the dimensions of on-ness, that is, an outside; in-ness, that is, an inside; throughness, that is, consecutive insides; and presence, that is, being anywhere and everywhere at once.

This enables straightforward and explicit calculation of the pseudohermitian invariants of the embedding which are also CR invariant.

Ieva Reklaityke’s work in Kalamazoo on sewers unclogged my mind, Martha Bayless’s latrinal insights were pleasantly pungent, and Kevin J. Wanner guided me to Eyrbyggja Saga.