Later, a sphere from Spaceland speaks to him, pokes his insides, and appears before him in his home, then carries him in an incomprehensibly new direction called "up", where he is able to look down and see into houses and the insides of the other polygons. The square dreams one night about visiting Lineland, where there is only one dimension, and he tries and fails to explain his existence and that of a second dimension to its king.
It's also a scathing dissection of Victorian class structures, of biological racism and eugenics, and of misogyny. Square note Originally "A Square", the indefinite article evolving to a first initial in later printings. The story takes place in a two-dimensional world made up of polygons, and is narrated by a square. Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions is a 1884 satirical novella by Edwin A.
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