Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

This evening we're relaxing with a very curious blend of mathematics and social commentary.

Flatland, a romance of many dimensions,

written and illustrated by A Square, otherwise known as Edwin A Abbott.

Second and revised edition published in 1884.

Let's begin.

To the inhabitants of space in general and H.C. in particular, this work is dedicated

by a humble native of flatland, in the hope that even as he was initiated into the mysteries

of three dimensions, having been previously conversant with only two, so the citizens of that celestial region

may aspire yet higher and higher to the secrets of four, five, or even six dimensions, thereby contributing

to the enlargement of the imagination and the possible development of that most rare and excellent gift of modesty among the superior races of solid humanity.

Flatland, part World, be patient for the world is broad and wide.

Section 1 of the Nature of Flatland

I call our world Flatland

Not because we call it so, but to make its nature clear to you my

happy readers who are privileged to live in space.

Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight lines,

triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places,

move freely about on or in the surface, but without the power of

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