Pantocyclus' speech and the death of the young god Color, and its unborn sibling Equality
[ID: a five panel comic showing characters from Flatland, who are all simple, black and white geometric shapes. Pantocyclus, a circle, is giving a speech. First he speaks to squares, pentagons, and equilateral triangles, saying, "You really want to degrade yourselves by giving Isosceles the same rights as you?" Then he turns to Isosceles triangles that are only a few degrees away from being equilateral, saying, "And you! You're almost ready to be welcomed into the class of Equilaterals! If not you, then your children! Do you really want to give that up so that those Criminals can have the same rights as you?" Then he turns to Straight Lines, and says, "If these Criminal scum are allowed the same rights as everyone else, you will never be safe again!". Finally he looks at many acute Isosceles triangles, saying, "I would rather die than ever seen one of your kind treated as my equal." The last panel shows the acute Isosceles cut in half by two straight lines, bleeding purple across the image as Pantocyclus says, "Fortunately, your deaths will serve the same purpose." End ID.]













