![]() ![]() I find it hard to believe that the author’s views could be as elitist as those of the narrator though. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered.”įlatland is a weird little book, as one might expect however it was fairly entertaining, and the writing amusing enough, despite the narrator’s didactic and elitist tone. Abbott’s amiable narrator provides an overview of this fantastic world-its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and reli gious beliefs. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. ![]() ![]() Abbott’s delightful mathematical fantasy about life in a two-dimensional world. I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers who are privileged to live in Space. ![]()
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