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Flatland

The book begins with a little description about Flatland. Flatland is like a vaste sheet of paper. There is a
place when squares, triangles, circles and another figures lives. But have a limits. Flor example, the
concept of high doesn't exist. If you take the position of see with an angle that decrease slowly until the
level of a table, every form can take the appearience of a straight line. The concept of Shadow doesn't
exist too. The autor call this point of view Edge, and means Frontier or top limit, like the Horizon. The
problem is that this is a curious disadvantage to recognize beetwen forms.

In flatland, we have too the cardinal points, but for us, it's impossible find the North point because not
exist some like the sun to guide us. But, for instance, un flatland, everithing Is atracted of strange mode,
to the south. Is like a Natural Law there. Only of this mode, we can understand positions and references.
Althought, in temperate climates is very slight, but the rain come from the North, and begin im intervals.

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