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This episode is brought to you by, crossing all the items off your to-do list. Tonight we read from Flatland written in 1884 by Edwin Abbott Abbott, Abbot, under the pseudonym A Square.

The book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture.

The novel is more enduring contribution is its examination of vengeance. Let's get cozy.

close your eyes.

Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths. Section 1 of the Nature of Flatland. 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.

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 rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows, only

hard and with luminous edges, and you will have then a pretty correct notion of my country and

countrymen.

Alas, a few years ago, I should have said, my universe, but now my mind has been opened

to higher views of things.

In such a country you will perceive at once that it is impossible that there

should be anything of what you call a solid kind, but I dare say you will suppose that we could at least distinguish by

sight the triangles, squares, and other figures moving about as I have described them.

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