Capitolo 10
When its side is turned verse we, consider her/it to us a right line;
when the end that contains his/her eye or mouth--for with us these
two organs are identical--it is the part that satisfies our eye,
then we don't see nothing but an extremely shiny point;
but when the back is introduced to our sight,
then--being only make up for-shiny, and, indeed,
almost weak as an inanimate object--she prevents
extremity serves her/it as some kind of Invisible Beret.
The dangers to which we am exposed by our Women owe
now is apparent to the ability of meanest of Spaceland.
If also the angle of a respectable Triangle in the
middle class is not without its dangers;
if you/he/she is raced against a Man that Works it involves a wound;
if collision with an Officer of the military class
a serious wound makes necessary; if a mere touch from
the vertex of a Private Soldier brings with him danger of death;
--what to race against a woman can be, except absolute
and the immediate destruction? And when a Donna is invisible,
or visible only as a make up for-shiny and weak point,
how difficulty owes him/it both, also for the most cautious,
always to avoid collision!
A lot of they are the promulgations done to different durations in the different one
States of Flatland to minimize this danger;
and in the Southerners and less moderate climates,
where the strength of gravitation is greater,
and human beings more responsible to casual
and unintentional motions, the Laws to pertain to
Women are naturally very more severe.
But a general perspective of the Code can be gotten
from the following summary:--
1. Every house will have an entry on the Oriental side,
for the use of Women only; from what all the women will enter
"in a becoming and respectful way" (footnote 1) and not
from the Men or hands Western.
2. Any Female will continually walk in some public place without
holding on his to Peace-whine, under criminal punishment of death.
3. Some Female, duly certified to be suffering
The Dance of St. Vitus, adaptations that chronic cold has accompanied