I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour … - Edwin A. Abbott

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Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other. Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

Edwin A. Abbott

I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage was over and the fragments swept away, has asked what has become of her husband and her children.

Children, Husband, Half, Case, Asked

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Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

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Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs. . . may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.

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Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles.

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I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.

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Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.

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Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other. Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.

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