Capitolo 2
But now, attracting again to the edge of the table, you gradually lower
Your eye (bringing so more and more himself/herself/itself in the condition
of the inhabitants of Flatland), and you will find the penny
more oval becoming to Your sight, and finally when You
you/he/she has precisely put Your eye on the edge of the table
(then you are, as are, indeed a Flatlander)
the penny will have stopped then appearing at all oval,
and you/he/she will be become, till now how you can see, a right line.
The same thing would happen if You pits to treat
in the same way a Triangle or a Plaza or some other figure
cardboard cuts. You hardly look at him with Your eye
on the edge of the table, you will find, that stops to appear
to You as a figure, and that it becomes in aspect a right line.
For example takes an equilateral Triangle--who represents with us
a Merchant of the respectable class. You show up 1 it represents
the Merchant as You would see while you were bending on
him from above; figures 2 and 3 represent the Merchant,
as you would see if Your eye were next to the level,
or all but on the level of the table; and if Your eye were
entirely on the level of the table (and that is as we sees him/it to us
in Flatland) you would not see nothing but a right line.
When I was in Spaceland I felt that Your sailors
has the very similar experiences while they crosses
Your seas and it discerns some distant island or coast
lying on the horizon. The far-away earth bays can have,
forelands, angles in and out to some number and extension;
still to a distance you don't see none of these (indeed
Your sun shines bright on them revealing the projections
and retirements from he/she wants to say of light and shade), nothing but
a line not rout and grey on the water.
Well, that is what we see when one of ours triangular
or the other knowledges enter verse us in Flatland.
As there any sun is with us, neither some light of this way
some kind as to make shades, we don't have none of the it helps
to the sight that you have in Spaceland.
If our friend comes more next to us we see