Also on November 11, 2005, a figure from this journal —
Students of myth may regard this hexagonal figure as a
snowflake . . . or, with a seventh dot added at the center,
a cube. For a religious interpretation of the snowflake,
see Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain. For a
more secular, but still miraculous, interpretation of the
cube, see the oeuvre of R. T. Curtis . . . and Octad Space —
"Before time began . . . ." — Optimus Prime