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From the Realms of the Imaginary 404

You have reached an imaginary page.

Several possibilities have been suggested as a solution to this problem, though to date none has actually proven to be efficacious. That may not matter if your imagination is sufficiently robust and inquisitive. You may:

  • Rotate your computer 90° in (or into) real-time fourspace and try again. If that is not practical (and we’ve never figured out how to do it ourselves), check your URL and try again. You also might try rotating your computer one more time, if you figured out how to do it the first time. If you have not, of course, repeating what you have never done is ipso facto impossible, though it is intriguing to note that the second try is logically guaranteed to work for you if (but only if) the first is certifiably impossible. If you find the first possible but merely ineffectual, of course, the second attempt will probably also be ineffectual. If you make it work and it produces the desired result, you might find it useful to install your computer (probably only the CPU is necessary: display devices might or might not have to move too) on time-traveling gimbals, so as to enable free rotation at a moment’s notice, though what that means in terms of time travel is unclear. It is only fair to inform you that we have never found this workable, however, and hence merely offer it for your theoretical consideration. If you figure out how to make it work, let us know, and we’ll split the Nobel Prize with you.
  • If reconfiguration or reorientation of the machine is unhelpful, you might prefer to attempt a different approach: Multiply the URL by i (√-1) and try again. We have not figured out how to do this either, since most of the notation in a URL is neither commutative nor properly associative, and sorting that out would be a notational nightmare.
  •   GrammatiCalc Warning: “by i” should be “by me”. Capitalization of “I” required.  

Failing those interesting solutions, you might resort to the pedestrian but almost certainly more effective expedient of contacting the webmistress to report the problem to her, together with the source where you found the referring link (assuming you haven’t just made it up out of your imagination — which might be one explanation for why you have landed at an imaginary page in the first place). If you provide an incorrect link for that page in turn, this could become a charmingly recursive but elegantly pointless exercise, verging on (but still entirely missing) real-world profundity.


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