But at least I can discern, by sight, a Line from a Point.
And let me prove it. Just before I came into your kingdom, I saw you
dancing from left to right, and then from right to left, with Seven
Men and a Woman in your immediate proximity on the left, and eight Men
and two Women on your right. Is not this correct?"
"It is correct," said the King, "so far as the numbers and sexes
are cocnerned, though I know now what you mean by 'right' and 'left.'
But I deny that you saw these things. For how could you see the Line,
that is to say the inside, of any Man? But you must have heard these
things, and then dreamed that you saw them. And let me ask what you
mean by those words 'left' and 'right.' I suppose it is your way of
saying Northward and Southward."
"Not so," replied I; "besides your motion of Northward and
Southward, there is another motion which I call from right to left."
King. Exhibit to me, if you please, this motion from left to
right.
I. Nay, that I cannot do, unless you could setp out of your Line
altogether.
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