Copyright ? Monty Lyman 2021

Published by arrangement with Intercontinental Literary Agency

Ltd, through The Grayhawk Agency Ltd.

Simplified Chinese translation copyright 2022 by United Sky

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The checker-shadow illusion, copyright E. H. Adelson, 1995.

The‘Thatcher’Illusion: image manipulation copyright Rob

Bogaerts CCO.

All other text illustrations by Global Blended Learning.