by Summer » May 27th, 2006, 9:58 pm
I always liked the concept in Flatland, where a two-dimensional shape from a two-dimensional world was visited by sphere. He saw it, of course, as a circle, just a strange one that could change size (by moving through the two-dimensional plane). Later, the sphere took him to a three-dimensional space, and the shape (a square, I believe), saw the real sphere, but had a difficult time relating. When it was in front of his eyes, it made sense, but back in Flatland, it didn't make so much sense. Plus, he couldn't explain it to anyone else very well. A sphere is like many circles piled on top of each other, but in Flatland, piling circles on top of each other would give you a chain of circles, not a sphere.
Err...what was I saying? Oh, right! I think that when angels interact with us in our "plane", we see a human representation of them...the part of them that intersects with our world. When prophets saw, in vision, angels in their own "planes", it was really hard to describe. You end up with eyes all around, and wheels in wheels that are all turning.
Anyway, I recommend Flatland.
People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as "Is this the laundry?" "How do you spell surreptitious?" and, on a regular basis, "Do you have a book I remember reading once? It had a red cover and it turned out they were twins." ~Terry Pratchett, about libraries
And we shall reach zero at some point. :)