Flatland

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In the titular Flatland, women are line segments and men are polygons with various side lengths and angles. Even in such a simple world, social hierarchies and inequality persist. Social status is determined by a man's regularity of shape and their number of sides. Women, as line segments, are considered dangerous because they can disappear from view and wound others with their end points. In addition to its social critique, Flatland has also been widely praised by scientists like Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking as a useful thought experiment for conceptualizing life in higher and lower dimensions.

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Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838¿1926) was an English educator, theologian, and Anglican priest best known for his 1884 satirical novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Though he is celebrated today for this mathematical fantasy, he spent the bulk of his career as a highly influential headmaster and prolific scholar of English literature and theology.

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