Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott, Part 3
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
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The Straight Line - The Whole of the World
The king's world was a blank to him, nay not even a blank for a blank implies space. His subjects of whom the small lines were men and the points women were all alike confined in motion and eyesight to that single straight line which was their world. Only by the sound of the voice could sex or age be distinguished. Such a life with all vision limited to a point and all motion to a straight line seemed to me inexpressibly dreary"
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