Edwin Abbott Abbott Quote

Assuming her most gracious manner, my Wife advanced towards the Stranger, "Permit me, Madam, to feel and be felt by— " then, suddenly recoiling, "Oh! it is not a Woman, and there are no angles either, not a trace of one. Can it be that I have so misbehaved to a perfect Circle?" "I am indeed, in a certain sense a Circle," replied the Voice, "and a more perfect Circle than any in Flatland; but to speak more accurately, I am many Circles in one."


Chapter 15. Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884) - PART II: OTHER WORLDS


Assuming her most gracious manner, my Wife advanced towards the Stranger, Permit me, Madam, to feel and be felt by— then, suddenly recoiling, Oh!...

Assuming her most gracious manner, my Wife advanced towards the Stranger, Permit me, Madam, to feel and be felt by— then, suddenly recoiling, Oh!...

Assuming her most gracious manner, my Wife advanced towards the Stranger, Permit me, Madam, to feel and be felt by— then, suddenly recoiling, Oh!...

Assuming her most gracious manner, my Wife advanced towards the Stranger, Permit me, Madam, to feel and be felt by— then, suddenly recoiling, Oh!...