larger on the inside than the outside

[Gary L. Thompson]

This has passed out of the spoiler domain.

On Wed, 21 May 1997, the Robot Vegetable wrote:

> Re:  Toon Imagery

> The image is that of the interior (house, compartment) that is much larger
> than the thing itself appears to be from the outside.  I think I saw a
> cartoon in which Bugs goes inside an Arabian tent only to find that the
> interior is a huge mansion, but no one seems to remember this.  
> 
> 	Kaspar Hauser (sp?) spoke of buildings this way.  When you are
> outside, the building is small, it lays in one direction only.  Inside,
> the building is large, it lays in all directions.
> 	In _Glory Road_ Heinlein, the, um, butler? has a attache case
> that opens up, and opens, and opens, until there's a door, and he goes
> inside to fetch things.

Some early Heinlein (collection originally called "The Unpleasant 
Profession of Jonathan Hoag," reissued about 1970 as _6XH_) included a 
story about building a hypercube (called a tesseract in the story--don't 
know if it's "really" called that).

Then of course there's Doctor Who's tardis . . . 

Gary Thompson