The book was dedicated in part to science fiction author Philip José Farmer, who had explored sexual themes in works such as The Lovers (1952).
“The causal relationship between events breaks down; movements become jerky rather than smooth. Time and space may become " grainy” or " chunky . Perhaps a piece of space can be traversed by a particle of matter in any direction without necessarily being synchronized with a piece of time. In short, a pair of events will occur in either time or space, the pair not being connected causally but by a random fluctuation."
In so doing, we may better perceive the form that “reality” assumes when we encounter it in those intermediate dimensions.