Magic Boxes
Part I: “The Magic Box,” shown on Turner Classic Movies tonight
Part II: “Mimsy Were the Borogoves,” a classic science fiction story:
“… he lifted a square, transparent crystal block, small enough to cup in his palm– much too small to contain the maze of apparatus within it. In a moment Scott had solved that problem. The crystal was a sort of magnifying glass, vastly enlarging the things inside the block. Strange things they were, too. Miniature people, for example–
They moved. Like clockwork automatons, though much more smoothly. It was rather like watching a play.”
