John Muir: “I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” ––John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
L. L. Bean marketing motto: “The outside is inside everything we make.”
Paul Krueger, architect: “As you step in the house you enter the outside.”
Doctor Who
- (1st) Doctor: “How is this possible?” / “You can’t fit a building into a sitting room, right? Then what of television?”
- Jo Grant (to 3rd Doctor): “I don’t believe it! It’s bigger inside than out!”
- Doctor Who (in The Three Doctors episode): “Well, Sergeant, aren’t you going to say it that it’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Everybody else does.” / Sgt. Benton: “Well, it’s… pretty obvious, isn’t it?”
- Clara Oswald (to the 11th Doctor, 49 years into the series): “It’s smaller on the outside.”
William Blake: “To see a World in a Grain of Sand / And a Heaven in a Wild Flower / Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand / And Eternity in an hour” –Auguries of Innocence
Chip's journey 
I really like the John Muir quote, Chip.
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From Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish:
His house was certainly peculiar, and since this was the first thing that Fenchurch and Arthur had encountered it would help to know what it was like.
What it was like was this:
It was inside out.
Actually inside out, to the extent that they had to park on the carpet.
All along what one would normally call the outer wall, which was decorated in a tasteful interior-designed pink, were bookshelves, also a couple of those odd three-legged tables with semi-circular tops which stand in such a way as to suggest that someone just dropped the wall straight through them, and pictures which were clearly designed to soothe.
Where it got really odd was the roof.
It folded back on itself like something that Maurits C. Escher, had he been given to hard nights on the town, which is no part of this narrative’s purpose to suggest was the case, though it is sometimes hard, looking at his pictures, particularly the one with the awkward steps, not to wonder, might have dreamed up after having been on one, for the little chandeliers which should have been hanging inside were on the outside pointing up.
Confusing.
The sign above the front door said, “Come Outside”, and so, nervously, they had.
Inside, of course, was where the Outside was. Rough brickwork, nicely done painting, guttering in good repair, a garden path, a couple of small trees, some rooms leading off.
And the inner walls stretched down, folded curiously, and opened at the end as if, by an optical illusion which would have had Maurits C. Escher frowning and wondering how it was done, to enclose the Pacific Ocean itself.
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These are funny! They made me smile!
You know, I never saw Dr. who. Is it worth seeing? There are so many seasons and actors, I wonder which is best?u
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These are funny! They made me smile!
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