Capitolo 49
danger if a Donna ever had to learn to covertly read and to bring
to his/her Sex the result of his/her perusal of an only popular volume;
neither of the possibility that the indiscretion or disobedience of some
it is probable that childish Male reveals to a Mother the secrets of the logical dialect.
On the simple earth of the to weaken some male intellect,
I remain this humble appeal to the tallest Authorities to reconsider
the regulations of education Female.
DIVIDES II
OTHER WORLDS
"Or it faces new worlds,
That has such people in them!"
Sections 13 As me had a Vision of Lineland
It was the last day but one of the 1999 year of ours it was, and the
before day of the Long Vacation. Having had a good time it cultivates a late time
with my recreation of favourite of the Geometry, I had retired to remain,
with an unsolved problem in my mind. At night I had a dream.
I saw in front of me an enormous crowd of small Right Lines
(what I naturally supposed to be Women) it interposed with the other Beings
even more small and of the nature of shiny points--entirely touching before and back
in one and the same Right Line, and, as almost how I could judge,
with the same speed.
A noise of chirrupping confused, numerous or to chirrup issued
from them to intervals until them you/they were moving himself/herself/itself; but sometimes
they stopped from motion, and then all were silence.
Approaching himself/herself/itself one of the greatest of what I thought to be Women,
I boarded him, but it didn't receive an answer. A second and bystander appeal
on my behalf it was equally ineffective. Patience loser to what appeared
to me the intolerable barbarism, I brought my mouth to a position full
in front of his/her mouth as to intercept his/her motion, and it noisily repeated
my question, "Donna, what means this contest and this strange
and chirrupping confused, and this monotonous motion before and back in the one
and the same Right Line?"
"I am not Donna", the small Line responded: "I am the Monarch of the world.
But you, from where intrudest you in my kingdom of Lineland?"