In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body of rest does not tend to stay at rest, and not every action can be counted to provoke an equal or opposite reaction. Time, too, is different. It may run in circles, flow backward, skip from now to then. The very arrangement of molecules is fluid. Tables can be clocks, faces, flowers.
These are facts you find out later, though.
Another odd feature of the parallel universe is that although it is invisible from this side, once you are in it you can easily see the world you came from. Sometimes the world you came from looks huge and menacing, quivering like a vast pile of jelly, at other times it is miniaturized and alluring, a-spin and shining in its orbit. Either way, it can't be discounted.
Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco."
-Girl Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen, page 5
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