Thought on the horts in SM and The Passenger
This thread suggest that the horts Alicia sees in the books may be mathematical entities.
This got me thinking about Lewis Carroll who kinda did the same thing, using characters to discuss mathematical concepts. See here for example.
This reminded me of the references in chapter 1 of The Passenger to a 'spectral operator' and to 'base 2', (where the kid says he is from) both mathematical concepts.
Somewhat more of a stretch, a 'plane' can refer to a mathematical 2d plane or to the crashed airplane in the book.
Perhaps the crashed airplane comes from the same place as the horts, the perfect world or 'wonderland' of mathematical entities. The book would then be the collision of the real world and the 'wonderland' of mathematical entities.
I've already commented on the older thread but it is three years old, so I thought I'd make a new one.