paul womack wrote:
>John North wrote:
>>>So, umm, just how far down does this slope go anyway??
>> Down? That's just a figure of speech. Actually the path takes you up a 
>> series of ascending steps. Think of a grand staircase.
>Like the one in "A Matter of Life and Death"?

Actually, M. C. Escher comes to mind:

http://www.worldofescher.com/gallery/AscendingDescendingLg.html

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