Flatland
Edwin A. AbbottEn Eski Flatland Gönderileri
En Eski Flatland kitaplarını, en eski Flatland sözleri ve alıntılarını, en eski Flatland yazarlarını, en eski Flatland yorumları ve incelemelerini 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz....when I talk to them about the unrecognized Dimension which is somehow visible in a Line - say, 'Ah, you mean brightness': and when I reply, 'No, I mean a real Dimension,' they at once retort 'Then measure it, or tell us in what direction it extends.'
"One touch of Nature makes all worlds a kin."
Shakespeare
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.
...and human beings more liable to casual and involuntary motions.
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.'
| aesthetically and artistically, very dull indeed.
I do not, of course, mean that there are not battles, conspiracies, tumults, factions, and all those other phenomena which are supposed to make History interesting; nor would I deny that the strange mixture of the problems of life and the problems of Mathematics, continually inducing conjecture and giving the opportunity of immediate verification, imparts to our existence a zest which you in Spaceland can hardly comprehend.
about the boringness of life