Capitolo 69
people as Enchanters and Magicians.
After a long break that he has murmured to him, "A resource alone the rests,
if I am not to apply to action. I have to try the method of Analogy."
It followed later then still a longer silence which he continued our dialogue.
Sphere. Tell me, the Mr. Mathematician; if a Point stirs Toward north,
and leaves a bright funeral vigil, that name would give to the funeral vigil?
ME. A right Line.
Sphere. And does a right Line have how much extremity?
ME. Two.
Sphere. Now conceives the Toward north right Line parallel touching
to him, East and Of the west, so that every point in him goes away behind
it the funeral vigil of a right Line. What a wish of name that you give to the Figure
with this it formed? We will suppose that it stirs through an equal distance
to the right and original line. --What name, do I say me?
ME. A plaza.
Sphere. And how much does it side it has a Plaza? How many angles?
ME. Four sides and four angles.
Sphere. You now stretch Your imagination a small, and it conceives a Plaza
in Flatland, parallel touching to him forehand upward.
ME. Thing? Toward north?
Sphere. No, not Toward north; directed upward; out of Flatland insieme.
If it stirred Toward north, the Southern points in the Plaza
it would owe first to stir through the positions occupied
from the Northern points. But that is not my meaning.
I mean that every Point in You--for You it is a Plaza and it will serve
the purpose of my illustration--every Point in You, that is to say
in what you call Your in, it is to pass upward through Space
in such way that any Point first it will pass through the position
occupied by some other Point; but every Point will describe a right
Line of his really. This is everything in agreement with Analogy;
it certainly has to be clear to you.
Braking my impatience--for me now I was under a strong temptation
to dress again wicker blindly to my Visitor and to fall him/it in Space,
or out of Flatland, wherever so that I could free of him--I responded:--