Flatland
Edwin A. AbbottSözler ve Alıntılar
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 (:
An eye in my inside! An eye in my stomach! Your Lordship jests.
Ah Tanrı hazretleri, sizin şu şakalarınız.
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.
...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
I am not a plane Figure, but a Solid. You call me a Circle; but in reality I am not a Circle, but an infinite number of Circles, of size varying from a Point to a Circle of thirteen inches in diameter, one placed on the top of the other. When I cut through your plane as I am now doing, I make in your plane a section which you, very rightly, call a Circle. For even a Sphere - which is my proper name in my own country - if he manifest himself at all to an inhabitant of Flatland - must needs manifest himself as a Circle.
...and human beings more liable to casual and involuntary motions.
mouth to mouth | no sides.
"Distinction of sides is intended by Nature to imply distinction of colours'' - such was the sophism which in those days flew from mouth to mouth, converting whole towns at a time to the new culture.