Capitolo 67
it implicates direction and measurement. Face but you measure mine "height,"
or only it points out to me the direction in which it extends mine "height",
and I will become Your convert. Otherwise, Your Dominion
just understands it has to hold it excused me.
Extraneous. (TO HIM.) I can do anybody. How will I convince him/it?
Certainly a simple affirmation of done followed by demonstration of ocular it owes
to be enough. --Now, Mr.; listen to me.
You is living on an Airplane. Thing You the style Flatland is the enormous level
surface of that that I can call a fluid, or in, the top of what Your and You
farmers move around, without rising above or to fall under it.
I am not a plain Figure but a Solid. You call me a Circle; but in
reality I am not a Circle but an endless number of you Look for, of ransom
varying from a Point to a Circle of thirteen thumbs in diameter,
one put on the top of the other. When I cut through Your airplane as
I am now doing, I do in Your airplane a section that You, very exactly,
you call a Circle. For also a Sphere--in what my correct name is mine really
country--if him demonstration him to all to an inhabitant of Flatland--
owes demonstration of necessity him as a Circle.
Face you don't remember--for me that I see all the things I discerned last
night the phantasmals see of Lineland written on Your brain--
face you don't remember, I say me, as when You digitò the kingdom of Lineland,
You were forced to be revealed himself/herself/themselves to the King, not as a Plaza,
but as a Line, because that Linear Kingdom enough it didn't have Dimensions
to represent the whole one of you, but only a slice or section of You?
In precisely the same way, Your country of Two Dimensions is not spacious
enough to represent me, a being of Three but you/he/she can only exhibit a slice
or section of me that I am what you call a Circle.
The brightness decreased of Your eye points out the incredulity.
But it now prepares him to receive test positive of the truth of my affirmations.
You cannot see indeed more than one of my sections, or you Looks for, to a duration;