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Sex in Flatland: A Discourse on Sexuality and Reproduction in Two Dimensions
By popular request, I've uploaded to Serendip the good doctor Pentagon's article on the mating habits of his fellow Flatlanders. Enjoy!
I wrote the attatched essay as a response to Abbott's Flatland, a novella that's risen to cult status among math geeks everywhere. Flatland is at once an exploration into the geometry of higher dimensions, a commentary on classism, and a dark caricature of Victorian prudishness and misogyny. But the one thing that Abbott never mentioned was sex. How would geometrical figures reproduce? Would they enjoy it? And what about sexuality itself-- is it as variable in two dimensions as it is in our three?
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| Sex in Flatland.doc | 41 KB |
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will send your essay to japan
i have not time to read your essay now, but i will forward the link to japan to the publisher where i worked when we did rudy rucker or was it dewdney or both on similar bks -- i had to check the translation of one, amazing i forget: i do recall the island was almost identical to chichijima (father island) one of the ogasawara's used to be called bonins maybe? i am better with images than names!
re variable, don't tell me you got the japanese 48-hands=ways into it! Speaking of 2 D sex, i only wish i could have gotten the character for a bump and a concavity together in my bk of sexy senryu, but i am not good with computers and even if i managed to make it chance are it would not pdf embedded . . .