Capitolo 79
"I have shewn You rescue of no Plain Figures and their interiorses.
Now I have to introduce her/it to Solids, and it reveal to you the plan on that
they is built. Sees this crowd of moveable square cards.
Sees, I put one on another, not as You he/she supposed, Toward north of the other,
but On the other. Now a second, now a bystander. Sees, I am building on
a Solid from a crowd of Plazas parallel to each other.
Now the Solid is complete, while being as tall as it is long and wide,
and we call him/it to us a Cube."
"Forgive me, my God" he/she answered me; "but to my eye the aspect
it is as of an Irregular Figure which in it is staid open to see;
in the other words, methinks I see anybody Solid but an Airplane as us
inflicts in Flatland; only of an Irregularity that makes to presage some
criminal monstrous, so that his a lot of sight is painful to my eyes."
"True", says the Sphere; "it appears to you an Airplane, because You
you/he/she has not accustomed for turning on and shade and perspective; in the moment in which in
Flatland a Hexagon would appear a Right Line to one whom doesn't have
the Art of Sight Recognition. But in reality it is a Solid,
as you will learn from the sense to Feel."
He introduced then me to the Cube, and I founded that this marvellous
Being was indeed any Plan but a Solid; and what he was gifted with
you are in general of airplanes and eight end point called solid angles;
and I remembered the motto of the Sphere that solo such Creature
as this would be formed from the touching Plaza, in the Space makes parallel to him:
and I rejoiced me to think how so meaningless a Creature as me I was able
in some sense has called the Progenitor of so illustrious a descendant.
But I could not understand fully the meaning of that yet that my Teacher
respect had told me to "light" and "shade" and "perspective";
and I didn't hesitate to put my difficulties in front of him.
It was me to give the explanation of the Sphere of these matters, short
and it clarifies nevertheless it was, it would be tedious to an inhabitant of Space,