Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.

Famous Quotes / Edwin Abbott Abbott

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Edwin Abbott Abbott: "Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen."

Quotations about

About	Above	Below	Correct
Country	Countrymen	Edges	Figures
Fixed	Freely	Hard	Hexagons
Imagine	Instead	Lines	Luminous
Move	Notion	Other	Paper
Pentagons	Places	Power	Pretty
Remaining	Rising	Shadows	Sheet
Sinking	Squares	Straight	Surface
Triangles	Vast	Very	Without

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Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. - Edwin Abbott Abbott