In the context of the tesseract travel described in "A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle, Meg briefly feels like she is "being completely flattened out by an enormous steam roller" because Mrs. Which mistakenly tries to stop on a two-dimensional planet. This description captures the disorienting and uncomfortable sensation of tessering, where the physical experience of travel is unlike anything familiar, causing Meg to feel flattened as they pass through different dimensions.
While she and the others are tessering, why does Meg briefly feel like she is "being completely flattened out by an enormous steam roller"?
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This is the feeling she always gets when tessering.
This is the feeling she always gets when tessering.
She passes through the "Dark Thing" while she travels.
She passes through the "Dark Thing" while she travels.
The sadness over her father's disappearance crushes her.
The sadness over her father's disappearance crushes her.
Mrs. Which mistakenly tries to stop on a two-dimensional planet.
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