Capitolo 58
But when I was finally transported out me of his/her Line, he cried in his
more acute voice, "you are enfeebled; she is dead." "I am not dead,"
answered me; "I am out simply of Lineland that is to say out of the
Right line that you call Space, and in the true Space, where I am able
sees things as them I am. And to this moment I can see Your Line,
or side--or in as You it is pleased to call him/it; and I can also see
the Men and Women on the north and South of You, who I will now enumerate,
describing their order, their ransom and the interval among each."
When I had done this to the great length, I cried triumphantly,
"Does that finally convince her?" And, with that, me once more
Entered Lineland, taking as before on the same position.
But the Monarch answered, "If You pits a Man of sense--nevertheless, as
You seem to only have a voice I have the small doubt you are not a
Man but a Donna--but, if you had a particle of sense, you are able
listening to reason. You ask to me to believe that there is another Line
besides what you/they point out besides my senses and another motion that
of what I am daily aware. Me, in return I ask to you to describe
in words or it points out from motion that the other Line of which you speak.
Instead of stirring, You only the exercise of the magic art to fade away
and returning for sighting; and instead of some shiny description of Your
New World, you simply tell me the numbers and ransoms of some forty
of my succession, done known to some child in my capital. You can anything
is more irrational or audacious? Gives credit to Your folly or departs
you give my dominoes."
Furious to his/her wickedness, and especially indignant that he professed
be ignorant of my sex, me ritorgei in any measured terms, "Besotted Essendo!
You are thought the perfection of existence, while you are in reality
the more imperfect and imbecile. You profess to see, while you see
nothing but a Point! You deck out him on to inflict the existence
of a Right Line; but I can See Right Lines, and it inflict the existence