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Lineland, that is to say, out of the Straight Line which you call Space, and in the true Space, where I can see things as they are.
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"I am not dead," replied I; "I am simply out of Lineland, that is to say, out of the Straight Line which you call Space, and in the true Space, where I can see things as they are.
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) Edwin Abbott Abbott 1882
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"I am not dead," replied I; "I am simply out of Lineland, that is to say, out of the Straight Line which you call Space, and in the true Space, where I can see things as they are.
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions Edwin Abbott Abbott 1882
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This square, an inhabitant of Flatland named A Square, receives a portentous visit from a sphere who takes him on trips to Pointland, Lineland and Spaceland.
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Sphere takes Square to see Lineland, a world consisting of two points, whose inhabitants rely entirely on their hearing to interact with their world and can only see the citizens immediately neighboring them.
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Sphere takes Square to see Lineland, a world consisting of two points, whose inhabitants rely entirely on their hearing to interact with their world and can only see the citizens immediately neighboring them.
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And, with that, I once more entered Lineland, taking up the same position as before.
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Yet since you are pleased to affect ignorance, I will instruct you as if you were the veriest baby in Lineland.
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At the word I began to move my body out of Lineland.
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I grant you I have not your discriminative faculty of hearing; for the concert of all Lineland which gives you such intense pleasure, is to me no better than a multitudinous twittering or chirping.
alexz commented on the word Lineland
A 1 dimensional region within Flatland where 1 dimensional beings live.
December 26, 2015