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Klein's Bottle Trap
Our little devil, dependent on the material laws of the physical world, falls in love
with a beautiful angel in a bottle. He dreams of joining her there, so seeing his
chance, he slithers under the base and into the bottle. Once there, the fallen
creature realizes that there is still a wall of glass between him and his angel. Since
the luminous being has no wish whatsoever to meet with the devil, she takes a step
back and exists the bottle. For a heavenly dweller, glass is not obstacle. The devil,
hovewer, now finds himself trapped in the bottle.
The German mathematician Felix Klein (1849 - 1925) invented a bottle that
has only an outside but no inside.