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Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated)

by Abbott Edwin Abbott

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...death by a retrograde movement, yet unless they can atonce disengage their stinging extremity from the struggling body oftheir victim, their own frail bodies are liable to be shattered. The power of Fashion is also on our side. I pointed out that in someless civilized States no female is suffered to stand in any publicplace without swaying her back from right to left. This practice hasbeen universal among ladies of any pretensions to breeding in allwell-governed States, as far back as the memory of Figures can reach. It is considered a disgrace to any State that legislation should haveto enforce what ought to be, and is in every respectable female, anatural instinct. The rhythmical and, if I may so say, well-modulatedundulation of the back in our ladies of Circular rank is envied andimitated by the wife of a common Equilateral, who can achieve nothingbeyond a mere monotonous swing, like the ticking of a pendulum; and theregular tick of the Equilateral is no less admired and copied by...