Flatland
Edwin A. AbbottEn Beğenilen Flatland Gönderileri
En Beğenilen Flatland kitaplarını, en beğenilen Flatland sözleri ve alıntılarını, en beğenilen Flatland yazarlarını, en beğenilen Flatland yorumları ve incelemelerini 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.lunatic asylums / line or shade
"What is the origin of light?''
On the weak and aged, and especially on delicate Females, the force of attraction tells much more heavily than on the robust of the Male Sex, so that it is a point of breeding.
An eye in my inside! An eye in my stomach! Your Lordship jests.
Ah Tanrı hazretleri, sizin şu şakalarınız.
With us, our Priests are Administrators of all Business, Art, and Science; Directors of Trade, Commerce, Generalship, Architecture, Engineering, Education, Statesmanship, Legislature, Morality, Theology; doing nothing themselves, they are the Causes of everything worth doing, that is done by others.
if the cleric takes a shit, he might even call this act god's will (:
...my Teacher had told me concerning "light'' and "shade'' and "perspective''; and I did not hesitate to put my difficulties before him.
the exact position - unclearness
It is astonishing how much the Art - or I may almost call it instinct - of Sight Recognition is developed by the habitual practice of it and by the avoidance of the custom of "Feeling.''
Just as, with you, the deaf and dumb, if once allowed to gesticulate and to use the hand alphabet, will never acquire the more difficult but far more valuable art of lipspeech and lip reading, so it is with us as regards "Seeing'' and "Feeling.'
...and human beings more liable to casual and involuntary motions.