Flatland is an 1884 novella by Edwin Abbott about a world of two-dimensional shapes that is one day invaded by a sphere from the third dimension. The narrator, a humble square, explains the society of shapes and their strict caste system. After a sphere passes through Flatland, the square is eventually shown the third dimension. However, the belief in the third dimension is outlawed and when the square returns and preaches its existence, he is imprisoned. The novella explores concepts of geometry and dimensionality, as well as satirizes Victorian society.
Flatland is like America They both identify people in different ways In Flatland classes are distinguished by using Hearing Feeling and by Sight Feeling determines the shape of someone by feeling one of their angles It is therefore not necessary as a rule to do more than feel a single angle of an individual and this once ascertained tells us the class of the person whom we are addressing unless indeed he belongs to the higher sections of the nobility 36 To use the Sight you need fog In the U S