The diminished brightness of your eye indicates incredulity.
But now prepare to receive proof positive of the truth of my assertions.
You cannot indeed see more than one of my sections, or Circles, at a time;
for you have no power to raise your eye out of the plane of Flatland;
but you can at least see that, as I rise in Space, so my sections
become smaller. See now, I will rise; and the effect upon your eye
will be that my Circle will become smaller and smaller till it dwindles
to a point and finally vanishes.
There was no "rising" that I could see; but he diminished and
finally vanished. I winked once or twice to make sure that
I was not dreaming. But it was no dream. For from the depths
of nowhere came forth a hollow voice--close to my heart it seemed--
"Am I quite gone? Are you convinced now? Well, now I will gradually
return to Flatland and you shall see my section become larger and larger."
Every reader in Spaceland will easily understand that my mysterious Guest
was speaking the language of truth and even of simplicity. But to me,
proficient though I was in Flatland Mathematics, it was by no means
a simple matter.
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