An Episode of Flatland; Or How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension; To Which Is Added an Outline of the History of Unaea

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: Swan Sonnenschein Subjects: Third dimension Geometry Geometry, Plane Space and time Fourth dimension Juvenile Nonfiction / Mathematics / Geometry Mathematics / General Mathematics / Geometry / General Philosophy / Metaphysics Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: AN EPISODE OF FLATLAND CHAPTER I A GLIMPSE AT UNAN SOCIETY "it is one of the most interesting things I know, being a three-er oneself, to watch and observe the doings of the twb-ers. Take Mrs. Castle for instance. I mention her, not because she is of any importance in our story, but as illustrating my point. She's a beauty, admitted, but that is not what gives her her vogue. It's her nicely calculated indiscretions. She blurts out things which no one could possibly believe were intentional, unless, as in the present case, he was a three-er and she a two-er. The two-ers she talks to very likely find out afterwards that she wasn't so impulsive as she seemed. But, to me, the play's the thing, seeing exactly at the moment it happens all that there is in it, noting the effect the plane folk have on one another and how they puzzle and bewilder one another. There is always a great deal of conscious or unconscious reserve, pretence, calculation in their dealings with one another. Except in the case of Laura. She is just perfect simplicity and would always produce the effect of a two-er in however many dimensions she was made up. Perhaps that is why they were all in love with her -- Harold Wall, Forest, Flower, not to mention the crabbed old historian Lake who actually disclosed a vein of poetry, talking to her. Now, to begin my story, in which I will subord...