Flatland: a romance of many dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Capitolo 72

I took him/it on.  There could be without doubt--it was the lacking tablet.

I groaned with horror, while doubting if I were out of my sense;
but the extraneous one continued:  "Now you certainly have to see that my explanation,
and anybody other, suits the phenomenons.  Thing you really call Solid things I am
superficial;  thing you call Space it is not anything but a great Airplane really.
I am in the Space, and it repute down the insides of the things of what
You only see the outsides.  You could leave the airplane You,
if you were able but he/she summon on the necessary volition.  A disdains direct upward
or descending motion would train Him to see everybody that I can see.

"The tallest I climb on, and the further one I go from Your Airplane,
the more than I can see, although I clearly see him/it on a smaller staircase.
I am for example, ascending,; I can now see Your neighbour the hexagon
and his/her family in them many apartments;  I now see the inside of
the Theater, ten doors away from what the public is departing only only;
and on the other side a Circle in his/her study, sitting to his/her books.
I will now return to you.  And, as a highest test, that that ago
does it tell mine giving him a touch, only the least touch, in Your stomach?
It won't hurt her seriously, and the disdains pain of which you can suffer
you/he/she cannot be comparative with the mental benefit that you will receive."

Before I could send forth a word of remonstration, I heard a pain it chases
in mine in, and a possessed laughter seemed to publish from inside me.
A moment after the acute agony had stopped, while not leaving anything but
a dull evil behind, and the extraneous one started to reappear, while saying,
as he gradually increased in ransom, "Là I have not made Him a lot of evil,
do I have?  If You now me it is not convinced I don't know what will convince her.
Thing they tell her?"

My decision was taken.  It seemed intolerable that I should bear
existence subject to the arbitrary visits of a Magician that it was able
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