Capitolo 54
a double embrace; and Nature cheers the ended one more marriage
and on three more births."
Sections 14 As me vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
Thinking that it was for shooting down the Monarch from his/her ecstasies now
to the level of common sense, I determined to endeavour to open on
to him of the looks of the truth that it is to say some nature
of things in Flatland. Then I started this way: "As ago Your Real Height
does distinguish the forms and positions of his/her subjects? Me for my part
it noticed from the sense of sight, before me digitai Your Kingdom,
what some of Your people are lines and others the Points;
and what some of the lines are greater--" "you speak of an impossibility,"
interrupted the King; "You has had to see a vision; to discover the difference
among a Line and a Point from the sense of sight it is, as every knows,
in the nature of things, impossible; but you/he/she can be open from the sense
of hearing, and from the same he/she wants to say my form you/he/she can precisely have verified.
See me--I am a Line, the longest in Lineland more than six thumbs of Space --"
"Of Length", I ventured me to suggest. "Jokes", it said him, "Space is Length.
Interrupt again me, and I have done."
I apologized me; but he disdainfully continued, "Since you are impervious
to matter, you will feel with Your ears as from he/she wants to say of my two bawls
I reveal my form to my Wives that are to this moment you are thousand miles
seventy put away in enclosure the eight thumbs of two feet, that al north,
the other to the South. Listening, I call to them."
Him the chirruped, and then it continued with complaisance: The "my wives to this
moment that receives the sound of one of my voice, followed from nearby
from the other, and perceiving that the according to he/she contacts them after an interval
in that sound can cross 6.457 thumbs, inflicts that one of my mouths
it is subsequently 6.457 thumbs from theirs that the other, and accordingly he/she knows
my form to be 6.457 thumbs. But you will clearly understand that