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Brattleboro root, but the next book, Flatland, is set in New York City.
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Lots of amazing bits and pieces in there, for example, how Flatland is a satire of the Victorian-era society that Abbott lived in.
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Flatland is a pretty straighforward looking shooter.
Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » Review: Flatland 2005
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The story is about a two-dimensional world referred to as Flatland which is occupied by geometric figures, line segments (females) and regular polygons with various numbers of sides.
Ask MetaFilter 2009
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We frequently use the example of a famous novel Edwin Abbott published in 1884, called Flatland.
The Shroud Codex Ph.D Jerome R. Corsi 2010
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Much of my family lives in Flatland, which is a part of Midwest State that looks as if a large something or other rolled across it then disappeared or melted several thousand years ago.
In which we had a great time. Angry Professor 2008
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In order to illustrate the problems associated with visualizing another dimension beyond our three-dimensional world of length, width, and height, Edwin Abbott wrote a book titled Flatland in which a two-dimensional man lives on a sheet of paper that comprises his two-dimensional world.
The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001
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In order to illustrate the problems associated with visualizing another dimension beyond our three-dimensional world of length, width, and height, Edwin Abbott wrote a book titled Flatland in which a two-dimensional man lives on a sheet of paper that comprises his two-dimensional world.
The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001
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The Flatland is an odd place in that it attracts lightning and thunder but not rain, which falls on the surrounding mountains.
Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991
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On the Flatland, which is about 5,000 feet above sea level, it is the day, rather than the year, that is divided into four seasons.
Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991
alexz commented on the word Flatland
A 2 dimensional world where 2 dimensional beings live. From the 19th century book Flatland: a romance of many dimensions written by A Square.
December 26, 2015