Flatland
Edwin A. AbbottFlatland Gönderileri
Flatland kitaplarını, Flatland sözleri ve alıntılarını, Flatland yazarlarını, Flatland yorumları ve incelemelerini 1000Kitap'ta bulabilirsiniz.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.
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.
"One touch of Nature makes all worlds a kin."
Shakespeare
...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.'