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February 12, 2008

From the Comments - By Spike

Strange Geometries

Lee was an origami nut. Nothing was safe–not my art papers, not the newspaper, not post-it notes. A thousand cranes was a warm-up project, in his opinion.

He was always working to find a more complex tangle of papers that still yielded a recognizable figure.

One day last spring, I found him folding atop a ladder. A scintillating ball of folded pointed papers stood in the living room, nearly to the ceiling. “I’ve almost made it!” he crowed. “A Schlafli-Hess polychoron!”

“You’ve made--a what?”

“A four-dimensional figure, based on the pentagon! Just one more fold . . .”

And with that, Lee vanished.

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