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hyperdontiia 's review for:
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Edwin A. Abbott
It's a parody, guys. I swear.
Flatland is an excitingly "full of old-fashioned eugenics" take on geometric shapes. As in, like, this is 20% an explanation of dimensionality and 80% "critique" (?) on a rigid social system with biologically hardwired castes. It turns out that at a line-level, there's also eugenics, But Different, and at a point level there's just a singular being which can not even conceive difference. Exciting! We don't learn about space-level culture, but we do know that the sphere is relatively put off by a square getting one over on him philosophically. The math is interesting geometry food-for-thought if you haven't extensively pondered how to perceive difference in shape at 2D level already (hello, depth perception!) but oh my god most of this is cultural background on what sounds like the worst place in the world to live.
Flatland is an excitingly "full of old-fashioned eugenics" take on geometric shapes. As in, like, this is 20% an explanation of dimensionality and 80% "critique" (?) on a rigid social system with biologically hardwired castes. It turns out that at a line-level, there's also eugenics, But Different, and at a point level there's just a singular being which can not even conceive difference. Exciting! We don't learn about space-level culture, but we do know that the sphere is relatively put off by a square getting one over on him philosophically. The math is interesting geometry food-for-thought if you haven't extensively pondered how to perceive difference in shape at 2D level already (hello, depth perception!) but oh my god most of this is cultural background on what sounds like the worst place in the world to live.