Preface
This submission reports a positive conclusion to the open problem Ushio Ikegami proposed as Project 4.3 in his paper “Fractal Origami for Beginners,” published in The Fold in December 2023. Although the conditions of Ikegami’s project had to be discarded to a great degree, I am chiefly content with my solution to the problem, which should mesmerize the reader.
However, never shall I forget how humiliated I was upon learning that the 2023 submission was not posted through me but through John Ray, Jr., even though it was I who had been the true mentor of Ikegami since the early period of his fractal folding research, and, as I mention in a paper that will be published later, Ikegami did not take my advice for his Koch snowflake design into serious consideration. Ikegami’s 2023 paper is a work of mere sloth, and Ray’s illiterate foreword is just meaningless sentimentalism. Had Ikegami faithfully followed my advice, this submission would have been written by him. Ikegami made the irredeemable mistake of missing the last piece of his quarter-century-long study, which was lying before his very eyes; Ray had no idea what was going on. I loathe shallow people.
Let me state that without my long-term support, Ikegami’s whole research in fractal folding would simply have had no human reality at all, since the human reality of such complicated works as his, with many pithy key points carelessly rejected by him, had to depend entirely on a reality that only my advice could provide. After all, the history of fractal origami was, from the beginning to the end, an offspring of my whimsical pastime, with Ikegami as my protégé. Now, I shall return to my own field of literature (I have spent too much of my sabbatical leave on this submission). To this statement my dear protégé would probably not have subscribed, but, for better or worse, it is not the recluse who has the last word.
Charles Kinbote
October 19, 2024
