Capitolo 16
you/he/she can easily fake the voice of a Polygon, and, with some training,
that of a Circle him. A second method is therefore more
commonly applied to.
To feel is, between our Women and lower classes--around our superior
classes I will talk to the moment--the principal test of recognition,
to all the events among extraneous, and when the question is, not as to
the individual, but as to the class. That that therefore her "introduction"
it is among the tallest classes in Spaceland that the trial of "to feel"
it is with us. "Allows me to ask to you to feel and is felt by my friend
Mr. it still So-and-so"--is, among the oldest style of ours
gentlemen of country in districts remote from city, the usual one
formula for an introduction of Flatland. But in the cities, and among men
of business, the words are felt from" you/he/she is omitted and the sentence is
shortened to, me "Allows to ask to you to feel Mr. So-and-so"; even if it is
false, clearly, that the "feeling" it has to be mutual. Among ours
he/she anchors young more modern and audacious gentlemen--who am extremely
I oppose to superfluous and extremely indifferent effort to the
purity of their mother language--still the formula is further
shortened by the use to feel" in a technical sense, wanting to say,
"to recommend-for - the the-purpose-of-feeling-and-be-felt";
and to this moment the "slang" of kind or fast society
in the sanctions of classes superior such barbarism as the "Mr. Smith,
allow me to feel the Mr. Jones."
You don't leave however that my Reader supposes that "to feel" you/he/she is with us
the tedious trial that would be with you, or that we find
it necessary to feel round corrected all the sides of every individual
before we determine the class to which he belongs. Long practice
and training, started in the schools and continued in the experience
of the daily life, I/you/he/she train us for immediately to discriminate from the sense of touch,
among the angles of an equal-sided Triangle, Plaza and Pentagon;
and I don't have need to say that the vertex without brain of an acute-to angles