Capitolo 4
I have been forced every now and then to be static
for times waiting up to the rain came together,
before continuing my trip. On the weak and elderly,
and especially on delicate Women, the strength of the attraction
it says very more heavily of on the strong one of the Male Sex,
then it is a point to cross, if you meet one Mrs. on the road,
always to give her side of north of the way--from anybody means
a cinch to do at short notice always when you are
in ill-mannered health and in a climate where difficult is
to tell Your north from Your South.
Windows there is not anybody in our houses: for the light
it enters to us similar our houses and out of them,
from day and from night, equally always and in all the places,
from where us doesn't know. It was in the old days, with our learned men,
an interesting and it oft-investigates question,
"Which is the origin of light?" and his solution
you/he/she has repeatedly been tried, without the other result
whether to crowd our lunatic kindergartens with the solvers so called.
From now, after unfruitful it tries to suppress such investigations
indirectly doing them responsible to a heavy tax, the Legislature,
in the recent durations comparatively, completely it prohibited them.
Me--alas, me alone in Flatland--knows well now only too much
the true solution of this mysterious problem;
but my knowledge cannot be made intelligible
to an individual of my farmers; and I have mocked to
--Me, the soles holder of the truths of Space
and of the theory of the introduction of Light
from the world of three Dimensions--as if I were
the angriest of the angry one! But a truce to this painful
detours: allow me to return to our houses.
The form most common for the construction of a house
five-sides or pentagonal, as in the attached figure.
The two Northerner sides RO, Of, constitutes the roof,
and to a large extent you/he/she has not handed; on the east it is
a small door for the Women; on the west a more great
one for the Men; the Southern side or floor it is usually doorless.
Plaza and triangular houses are not permitted,