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PETER BRABBÉE / A UNIVERSE OF HIS OWN
A mind
with no edges.
Fiction. Philosophy. Beautifully strange ideas.
For anyone who has ever wondered
what’s on the other side of ordinary.
YOU ARE HERE. WHEREVER HERE IS.
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01 / OBJECTS FROM OTHER WORLDS
Not quite
ordinary books.
Three ways in.
No prescribed way out.
02 / A SMALL EXPERIMENT IN CURIOSITY
Thoughts have
their own gravity.
Choose a thought.
Find a way into the books.
NO SINGLE POINT OF VIEW IS THE WHOLE VIEW.
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What if the question is the way in?
A different conclusion begins with a different question. Follow the XYZX Set into the tools of the human mind—and the possibilities already within us.
Follow it into the XYZX CodexA THREAD TO FOLLOW / 02
A familiar world. An unfamiliar possibility.
Madison, Wisconsin. A pyramid of light. Characters who arrive and disappear at will. Take one step beyond the world you recognise.
Enter Transcendent ShapesA THREAD TO FOLLOW / 03
Some doors are felt before they are seen.
Wonder and unease live side by side in eight stories of curiosities. Follow Jack into Gardens in Winter, and see where an unexpected turn can lead.
Wander into Gardens in WinterA THREAD TO FOLLOW / 04
Another mind. Another way of being.
The conversation opens outward: fairness, virtue, human understanding. Enter Plato’s Cave and spend a little time with another point of view.
Continue in Plato’s Cave
ART & ARTEFACTTHE XYZX WORLD ↗
03 / THE MIND BEHIND THE WORLDS
Comfortably
elsewhere.
Welcome to XYZX. Pronounced “zizz-icks.”
A publishing home for Peter Brabbée, Melrose Man, Tater the Common, and a constellation of creative voices. Fiction, philosophy, and art sharing the same strange air.
From the speculative worlds of Transcendent Shapes to the questions within the XYZX Codex, the invitation is the same: follow your curiosity. Even when it takes the long way round.
Follow the mind behind the books04 / TRANSMISSIONS FROM PLATO’S CAVE
Still thinking.
Still wandering.
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January 29, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
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Plato's Cave Blog 4 Humai Kwon do (2003-2023): Pilgrim in the Other World: New Works
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Plato’s Cave 3
XYZX responds to her Reverence Abigail Adams…another of our Founding Fathers heard only in Letters. My dear Abigail Adams, thank you for your visit today. You asked about my true opinion of…
The edge of understanding
is a wonderful place
to begin.