Flatland: a romance of many dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Capitolo 61

"if you spoke less absurdity, you would remember more sense."

Then my Nephew had disappeared in dishonor;  and there I sat from mine
Wife's side, endeavouring to form a retrospective look of the year 1999 and of
the possibilities of the year 2000;  but not rather able to shake of the
thoughts suggested by the chirruping of my diamond small Hexagon.  Only a
little that sands have now remained in the glass of mezz'ora.  Rousing himself/herself/itself from mine
day-dream I turned the glass for the last time in the old one Toward north
Millennium;  and in the action, I exclaimed to tall voice, "The boy is a fool."

Straightway I became aware of a Presence in the room and a
cooling breath thrilled through mine a lot of being.  "He is such any what,"
weeping my Wife, "and you are storming so the Commandments
dishonouring Your his/her own Nephew."  But me not taken any notice of her.
Looking around in every direction I could not see anything;  he/she still anchors
I Felt a Presence, and it shivered as the cold whisper it came again.
I started on.  "What is the matter?" says my Wife, there is no draught;
what is you/he/she looking for?  There is no anything."  There was no anything;
and me taken back my place, while exclaiming again, "The boy is a fool, I say me;
three - to-the-third could not have meant in Geometry."
An immediately came there separately it replies audible,
"The boy is not a fool;  and three-to-the-third
it has a Geometric and obvious meaning." 

My Wife as me I felt the words, even if she didn't do
understands their meaning and both of us they jumped in ahead in the direction
of the sound.  What was our horror when we saw in front of us a Figure!
To the first look a Donna seemed to be, sideways seen;
but the shewed of the observation of a moment me that the extremities passed
in the obscurity too quickly to represent one of the Sex Female;
and I would have owed a Circle to think him, only that it seemed
to change his/her ransom in an impossible way for a Circle
or for some regular Figure of which me had experiment.
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