Capitolo 3
its line becomes greater; if he allows us
it becomes smaller; but he still looks as
a right line; both him a Triangle, To straight angle,
Pentagon, Hexagon, Circle, what you want--
a right Line he looks and nothing other.
You can perhaps ask as bottom these circumstances of disadvantagous
we am able to distinguish our friends from each other:
but the answer to this very natural question will be more appropriately
and easily gives when I come to describe the inhabitants of Flatland.
For the present allows me to postpone this subject, and says a word or two
on the climate and houses in our country.
Sections 2 Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
As with You, they are so also with us four points,
of the compass north, South, East, and Of the west.
There being neither any sun nor the other paradisiacal bodies, it is impossible
for us to determine the north in the usual way; but we have
a method of ours really. From a Law of Nature with us,
there is a continuous attraction to the South;
and, even if in climates moderate this is a lot of disdains--
a Donna in reasonable health can also travel then
a lot of furlongs toward north without a lot of difficulty--
I still strive him/it that it prevents some direct attraction to the south
it is rather enough to service as a compass in more parts
of our earth. Besides, the rain (what autumns
to determined intervals) always coming from the north,
it is an additional assistance; and in the cities
we have the guide of the houses,
what they clearly have their side-wall
racing north and South to a large extent,
this way that the roofs can hold away the rain from the north.
In the country, where houses there are not,
the trunks of the trees serve as of the kind of guide.
Together, we don't have so a lot of difficulty as he/she forces
is waited in to determine ours carrying.
Still in our more moderate regions in that
the direct attraction to the south is not felt really,
clearly walking perfectly in sometimes a desolate
where any houses neither trees there have been for driving me,