The diminished brightness of your eye indicates incredulity. But
now prepare to receive proof positive of the truth of my assertions.
You cannot indeed see more than one of my sections, or Circles, at a
time; for you have no power to raise your eye out of the plane of
Flatland; but you can at least see that, as I rise in Space, so my
sections become smaller. See now, I will rise; and the effect upon
your eye will be that my Circle will become smaller and smaller till
it dwindles to a point and finally vanishes.
There was no "rising" that I could see; but he diminished and
finally vanished. I winked once or twice to make sure that I was not
dreaming. But it was no dream. For from the depths of nowhere came
forth a hollow voice -- close to my heart it seemed -- "Am I quite
gone? Are you convinced now? Well, now I will gradually return to
Flatland and you shall see my section become larger and larger."
Every reader in Spaceland will easily understand that my
mysterious Guest was speaking the language of truth and even of
simplicity.
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