flatland j_blue "Behold yon miserable creature. That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own World, his own Universe; of any other than himself he can form no conception; he knows not Length, nor Breadth, nor Height, for he has had no experience of them; he has no cognizance even of the number Two; nor has he a thought of Plurality; for he is himself his One and All, being really Nothing. Yet mark his perfect self- contentment, and hence learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy. Now listen." 010504 ... j_blue a conversation between a sphere and a square, both visitors to pointland, about the point that lived there 010504 ... the geometry of grendel billions and billions of Carl Sagans 010504 ... melvinwang maybe it refers to life, all two-dimensional and all. I really loved this book, being a math person. . . 010504 ... j_blue dont ignore the socio religious aspects, the guy who wrote the book was a monk (i think) its cool, cuz he coulda been talking about aliens, jesus, or just interdimensional shit; and how people might or do react to said visitations great can of beans, and quite succinct 010507 what's it to you? who go blather from