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villainous_hoopdreams 's review for:
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Edwin A. Abbott
Flatland doesn't really become interesting until you meet the sphere. A. Square has spent a hundred pages explaining Victorian allegorical geometry, which is neat, but has a limited reach.
Then the sphere LITERALLY DROPS IN and is like "what about the third dimension, bud?" A. Square tries to stab him with one of his corners, but eventually gets on the Sphere's level (kind of literally), and becomes a convert.
What follows in the final chapters is part Allegory of the Cave, part Kafka, and a mindblowingly frustrating, but believable, representation of how we fail to get a clue and why and how it is so hard to grasp and retain knowledge fully.
It's not a thrilling read, but man does it hammer home its point at the end, in my opinion.
Then the sphere LITERALLY DROPS IN and is like "what about the third dimension, bud?" A. Square tries to stab him with one of his corners, but eventually gets on the Sphere's level (kind of literally), and becomes a convert.
What follows in the final chapters is part Allegory of the Cave, part Kafka, and a mindblowingly frustrating, but believable, representation of how we fail to get a clue and why and how it is so hard to grasp and retain knowledge fully.
It's not a thrilling read, but man does it hammer home its point at the end, in my opinion.