a couple three

[Joseph T]

"I think that "couple three" is just good for the atmosphere that is  
being
created in the book related to some kind of wavering in dimensions, a
refraction, possible other coordinates off to the side? that kind of  
thing?
I'm not a math person really so .. maybe maybe not.
jill"

Wouldn't bet on intentionality here, but beside the way it captures  
American idiom, the phrase makes me think of the book cover which is  
not  actually double refraction but double refraction with an  
alternate font sandwiched in between . The Font in between is more  
like the capitals of  text Font though I have not examined it  
precisely.  This is also suggestive of an intermediary alternative  
between two degrees of the original light, "what the world might be  
with a minor adjustment or 2".

Taking the idea bit further, History is honored as source and ground  
but is also caught and refracted in the fictional but emotionally,  
intellectually real lives of the Traverse family, the Rideouts,  
Tyrian, Yashmeen etc.  shuttling between these two and between past  
and present are the more clearly stylized/imaginative chums,  
Padzhitnoff , sand submarines and human shaped northern bad-asses.

There is the phenomenal world of light, energy, time...and refracted  
with remarkable verisimilitude the scientific/ mathematical  
description. and sandwiched between the laws of reality and the  
mathematically described  laws of physics is the ever variable  
interpretation.