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I Dream of Flatland: Pointless Pointland Adventure

Ok so like, lineland was great fun in flatland. I always liked how the methods of "seeing"/awareness changed relative to dimensions. In point land, the king had no concept of sight, and considered all sound to be his own conciousness. This could be considered level one: no sight, no touch, poor hearing.

Lineland is heavily focused on hearing and singing, with it being the primary method of understanding your neighbours. The music from two mouths of a male linelander allows for their length to be determined after all. Touch is possible in this dimension, though like the line segments in flatland, it is lethal. So at level two, we have no sight, poor/lethal touch, and excellent hearing.

In Flatland we understand that the basic method of understanding is touch. I'm of the opinion that if the flatlanders evolved differently, they could theoretically perceive the way the linelanders do, however they just don't. Perhaps the addition of a new dimension is a problem here. Sight in Flatland is also learnable, but very hard. In my opinion, Abbot added these differences purposely, but I'll get to that in a minute. Level three has poor sight, excellent touch, and poor/no hearing (as a means of percieving the world around you).

Finally we have spaceland. Our own world, where we perceive primarily by sight and need a completely different method to get around in the event of blindness. So in my levelling system, we as humans don't often get around by hearing or touch, and have excellent sight.

I think this could be graphed as a curve if you really wanted to, but I think Abbot was possibly trying to reflect the changing of dimensions and how aspects of the next dimension are seen in the previous. This is a concept seen in mathematics after all, so tying a tool of flatland's classism (not teaching lower classes the skill of sight recognition) into this mathematical concept is rather elegant if you ask me. It's exactly the point of the book, to combine mathematics with social commentary, and I like that.

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The Monarch of Pointland, in the Abyss of Zero Dimensions

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#Rjalker writes Flatland a 2023 Translation #Rjalker reads Flatland a Romance of Many Dimensions #Flatland #Flatlandaromanceofmanydimensions #The Monarch of Pointland #ititspronouns #ItItspronounscapitalized #Pointland

I made some designs for characters of Flatland. Pointland is the white dot with a black background. The Linelanders are the pencil markings that are barely visible. The Flatlanders are the square and the thin parallelogram with visible organs and little cilia for feeling. The Spacelanders are the cube and the octahedron. I designed them with color as I assume that in Spaceland there are way fewer restrictions than in Flatland (i.e. things related to color, irregularities, etc.)

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Pointland: The Best Flatland Character

Of all the characters in Flantland, Pointland really is the most alien.

Pointland's pronouns are I/me. Why do I need pronouns for others to refer to me? I thinks I'm all there is.

Pointland is self-satisfied, always happy. Confident. Pointland likes all the stories I come up with (even the ones not made by Pointland, but I assumed I made)

But then, why do we think of Pointland as sad? Pointland has no friends. Whatever novelty I could come up with, is in the end only for me. Pointland doesn't even know what I'm missing out on. Pointland can't concieve of another, of someone else who loves you, someone else who cares, someone else who makes stuff for you, Pointland has no concept of any of that.

And that makes Pointland one of the most interesting characters I* have come across.

And besides, Pointland is ridicuosly easy to make fanart of.

<- look! Pointland!

*the person writing this, not Pointland, although this statement is true for Pointland as well

#flatland #pointland #it sure is hard to write a post using I/me pronouns but talking in the third person. i recommend you try it #also sorry to any of my followers confused by this post but i gotta add to the Flatland fandom in my small ways