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Did you know? A LARB essay on Wallace's mathematics argued the fractal structure works precisely because nobody sees it — like all good narrative structure it organizes without being noticed, so "the fact that the casual reader remains oblivious to the Sierpinski Gasket is proof of its success" (larb-infinite-proofs-math-dfw).