Flatland: a romance of many dimensions

Edwin Abbott Abbott

Capitolo 85

things.  There, in front of my eye abducted in ecstasy, a Cube that stirs in some
together new direction, but severely according to Analogy, as to
makes every particle of his/her inside passage through a new kind of Space,
with a funeral vigil of his really--it will still create a more perfect perfection
what him, with sixteen final Additional-solid angles and Otto
Solid cubes for his/her Perimeter.  And once we am there, ours
done race direct upward?  In that region of Four Dimensions it blessed, us
does it linger to the fifth threshold and not digita therein?  Ah, no! 
I/you/he/she do us rather resolution that our ambition will fly aloft with our lance-corporal
ascent.  Then, producing to our intellectual assault the gates of the,
You are Dimension it will fly open;  after a seventh, and then an eighth--

How much time I would have had to continue me I don't know.  In vain it made the Sphere,
in his/her voice of thunder, you reiterate his/her command of silence,
and it threatens me with the most atrocious criminal punishments if I persisted.
Nothing could embank the flood of my ecstatic aspirations.
I perhaps had to blame;  but indeed I was inebriated with
the recent draughts of Truth to which him he had introduced me.
However, the end was not long in to come.  My words were shortly cut
from an accident out, and a simultaneous accident in me,
what it impelled me through space with a speed that has blocked discourse.
Down! down! down!  I was quickly coming down;  and I knew that return
to Flatland my decree was.  A look, one hard and never-to-be-forgotten
look I had of that wild region of level blunted--what you now owe becoming
my Universe again--scatters out in front of my eye.  Then an obscurity.
Then an end, all-completing thunder-ringing;  and, when I came to me,
Me once more I was a creeping and common Plaza, in my Study in house,
listening to the Peace - Cries of my Wife that approaches.




Sections 20 As the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision.


Even if I had less that one minute for reflection, I felt, from some kind
by instinct, that I owe to conceal my experiences from my Wife.
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