Looking around, he saw he had landed next to a man in a suit.

Looking around, he saw he had landed next to a man in a suit. With a twitch of his nose, the man introduced himself saying, “Hello, I am Whitehead. I’m glad you have arrived in the World of Heavens. This passage between our worlds is called Gabriel’s Horn.[^11] We tried to make the passage nicer, but we could never finish painting the inside since it is infinitely large. The hole is too small and cumbersome for two people at once. I’m doing entirely too much talking!

This is what you need to know. This world is very different from your world. Here, everyone and everything can talk. Take care, as all your thoughts are automatically translated into words that others will hear.[^12] Like raindrops on a pond, your words will constantly fall and the ripples of consequence they create may be hard to control. Welcome, and good luck”. At this, the man ran away, leaving Ali alone in his quest for eternal knowledge.

With Whitehead’s warning weighing on his mind, Ali wandered around a bit, trying to figure out what this whole new world was about. After a bit, he came across someone who was shaped like a symbol. This person looked exactly like the letter “U” and “U” was wearing a black tie. He or she - it was hard to know - introduced itself in the fashion of James Bond saying, “Hello. I am Stan - Under Stan.

I’ll be your guide in this world, and I shall do my best to help you understand everything as it was, as it is, and as it shall be”. Hearing the word “everything” was enough to scare Ali. He knew he would never have enough time to understand all the weird things in this place, and he was already yearning to return home and feed his cat. “Forget about your cat. Let's concentrate on the daisies,” U said.

U continued excitedly, “Wasn’t it you who wanted to have an infinitely large chain of daisies?” U asked the question in a very Aristotelian way, so Ali nodded his head in agreement. “What would you need for such a chain besides infinitely many daisies?” U continued. “What a stupid question!” Ali thought, but he tried to dismiss this idea so as not to offend U. Instead he responded, “I would need time, an infinite amount of time”.