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    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

    by LovelyMay

    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott is a satirical novella that imagines a two-dimensional world and uses its protagonist’s discovery of a third dimension to explore themes of perception, social class, and the limitations of understanding.

    1. SECTION 1 Of the Nature of Flatland
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    2. SECTION 2 Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland
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    3. SECTION 3 Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland
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    4. SECTION 4 Concerning the Women
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    5. SECTION 5 Of our Methods of Recognizing one another
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    6. SECTION 6 Of Recognition by Sight
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    7. SECTION 7 Concerning Irregular Figures
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    8. SECTION 8 Of the Ancient Practice of Painting
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    9. SECTION 9 Of the Universal Colour Bill
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    10. SECTION 11 Concerning our Priests
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    11. SECTION 12 Of the Doctrine of our Priests
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    12. SECTION 13 How I had a Vision of Lineland
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    13. SECTION 14 How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland
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    14. SECTION 15 Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland
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    15. SECTION 16 How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland
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    16. SECTION 17 How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds
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    17. SECTION 18 How I Came to Spaceland, and what I Saw There
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    18. SECTION 19 How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desire more; and what came of it
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    19. SECTION 20 How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision.
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    20. SECTION 21 How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success
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    21. SECTION 22 How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result
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