{"id":197496,"date":"2024-10-12T05:23:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T10:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/flatland-yet-i-exist-in-the-hope-that-these-memoirs"},"modified":"2024-10-12T05:23:36","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T10:23:36","slug":"flatland-yet-i-exist-in-the-hope-that-these-memoirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/flatland-yet-i-exist-in-the-hope-that-these-memoirs","title":{"rendered":"Flatland: Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flatland.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i><i>Flatland<\/i>: A Romance of Many Dimensions<\/i><\/b> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satire\" title=\"Satire\">satirical<\/a> novella by the English <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Schoolmaster\" title=\"Schoolmaster\">schoolmaster<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edwin_Abbott_Abbott\" title=\"Edwin Abbott Abbott\">Edwin Abbott Abbott<\/a>, first published in 1884 by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seeley,_Service\" title=\"Seeley, Service\">Seeley &amp; Co.<\/a> of London. Written pseudonymously by \u201cA Square\u201d,<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-1\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flatland#cite_note-1\"> [ 1 ]<\/a> <\/sup> the book used the fictional <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plane_(mathematics)\" title=\"Plane (mathematics)\">two-dimensional world<\/a> of to comment on the hierarchy of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victorian_era\" title=\"Victorian era\">Victorian<\/a> culture, but the novella\u2019s more enduring contribution is its examination of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dimension\" title=\"Dimension\">dimensions<\/a>.<sup id=\u201d cite_ref-isbn0-465-01123-3_1_2-0\u201d class=\u201d reference\u201d><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flatland#cite_note-isbn0-465-01123-3_1-2\"> [ 2 ]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>A sequel, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sphereland\" title=\"Sphereland\">Sphereland<\/a>, was written by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dionys_Burger\" title=\"Dionys Burger\">Dionys Burger<\/a> in 1957. Several films have been based on including the feature film <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flatland_(2007_Ehlinger_film)\" title=\"Flatland (2007 Ehlinger (2007). Other efforts have been short or experimental films, including one narrated by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dudley_Moore\" title=\"Dudley Moore\">Dudley Moore<\/a> and the short films <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flatland_(2007_Johnson_and_Travis_film)\" title=\"Flatland (2007 Johnson and Travis The Movie<\/i><\/a> (2007) and &lt;a href=\u201chttps:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flatland_2:_Sphereland\u201d class=\u201d\u201d title=\u201cFlatland 2: 2: Sphereland<\/i><\/a> (2012).<sup id= cite_ref-3 class= reference><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flatland#cite_note-3\"> [ 3 ]<\/a><\/sup>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley &amp; Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by \u201cA Square\u201d, [ 1 ] the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella\u2019s more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}