Shell Tones

Perhaps because of being a mathteacher with an avid interest incosmology, the author has acquired anexpectancy of alternatives such as "e;ifnot real, then imaginary"e; all the wayto "e;if not matter, then antimatter."e;This has led to the "e;what if factor"e;demonstrated in his novel. "e;What if"e;(to the first power) a man can hearsounds emanating from paintings in amuseum? To what end, you might ask:perhaps a hobby of catalogingmasterpieces based on tones from oneto four? But "e;what if"e; (squared), in thepresence of a foreign object theoriginal painting becomes silent, assilent as a movie poster or even areproduction. What did the paintinghave that the poster didn't have?What, then, did it lose? Is this causefor alarm? In Shell Tones, it is!