Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott, Part 3
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
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The King Said, I Do Not Understand You.
I grant you I have not your discriminative faculty of hearing. But at least I can discern by sight a line from a point and let me prove it. Besides your motion of northward and southward, there is another motion which I call from right to left. Exhibit to me if you please, this motion from left to right. Nay, that I cannot do unless you would step out of your line altogether. Out of my line? Do you mean out of the world, out of space? Well, yes. To see yet be cut off from those linear prospects which are vouchsafed to us in flat land. Better surely to have no sense of sight at all than
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