Some more on Flatland.....
Chapter 3
The size of a full grown inhabitant of Flatland may be estimates at about eleven inches. The women in Flatland are straight lines. The soldiers and lower classes of workmen are triangles with two equal sides. The middle class consists of equilateral or equal-sided triangles. The professional men and gentlemen are squares. The narrator of the book belongs to this class. The nobility are hexagons. It is a law of nature that a male child has one more side than his father.
Chapter 4
Women are compared to needles. There are 3 rules the women must follow. 1) Every house shall have one entrance in the Eastern side, for the use of Females only and must enter in a respectful manner. 2) No female shall walk in any public place without continually keeping up her peace-cry, under penalty of death. 3) Any female, duly certified to be suffering from St. Vitus's Dance, fits, chronic cold accompanied by violent sneezing, or any disease necessitating involuntary motions, shall be instantly destroyed. Females must always move their backs from right to left in any public place to show their presence.
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