Comment by mcphage

> The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly

> Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like.

>

> It wasn't infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting.

> Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is

> incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into

> which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very

> very big, so that it gave the impression of infinity far better than

> infinity itself.