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where everything pretends to be one dimension thinner than it really is
means The outermost layer or face of something — the boundary where an object meets the world, and what you see before you look any deeper.
from From French surface, built by stitching Latin super- ("above, over") onto face ("face"), itself from Latin facies. So a surface is literally an "over-face": the face laid over the top of a thing — a 17th-century coinage modeled on Latin superficies, which carried the same idea.
water tricksurface tension lets bugs walk on ponds
all skina soap bubble is almost entirely surface, no inside
hidden vastnessyour lungs' surface area rivals a tennis court
deep mythmost icebergs show only a tenth of themselves
math limita fractal's surface can be infinitely long, finite area