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This is black-belt stuff, gang: ''Nested'' {{tag|flannel}}. A flannelette phase, (one already displaying a keening want of [[ontological certainty]]) ''embedded in'' another flannelette phrase ''that also displays {{t|profound ontological uncertainty}}''.  
This is black-belt stuff, gang: ''Nested'' {{tag|flannel}}. A flannelette phase, (one already displaying a keening want of [[ontological certainty]]) ''embedded in'' another flannelette phrase ''that also displays {{t|profound ontological uncertainty}}''.  


Breath taken. There’s a portal to the fourth dimension right there. An information superhighway direct to the [[Boredom heat death|boredom heat-death]] of the universe.
Breath taken. There’s a portal to the fourth dimension right there. An information superhighway direct to the [[Boredom heat death|boredom heat-death]] of the universe. This drafting pedantry is so heroic it feels churlish to note you could have got what you came for by just using the word “or”.


By another immutable law of the universe, ''the number of [[slash]]es must remain constant for all time and in all universes''. So if the ECCDS have taken out thirty three of the blighters, '''they must appear somewhere else''', perhaps small, tiny, curled up into another dimension, but somewhere, there are thirty three extraneous [[slash]]es. There ''must'' be.  
By another immutable law of the universe, ''the number of [[slash]]es must remain constant for all time and in all universes''. So if the ECCDS have taken out thirty three of the blighters, '''they must appear somewhere else''', perhaps small, tiny, curled up into another dimension, but somewhere, there are thirty three extraneous [[slash]]es. There ''must'' be.