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Flatland

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Flatland	label	Flatland
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Flatland	comment	Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by Edwin A. Abbott. The story takes place in a two-dimensional world made up of polygons, and is narrated by a square named A. Squarenote Originally "A Square", the indefinite article evolving to a first initial in later printings. It's also a scathing dissection of Victorian class structures, of biological racism and eugenics, and of misogyny.The square dreams one night about visiting Lineland, where there is only one dimension, and he tries and fails to explain his existence and that of a second dimension to its king. Later, a sphere from Spaceland speaks to him, pokes his insides, and appears before him in his home, then carries him in an incomprehensibly new direction called "up", where he is able to look down and see into houses and the insides of the other polygons. Suddenly understanding, he speculates that there may be dimensions beyond Spaceland, but the sphere is discomfited by this and returns him to Flatland, where he seems to just appear. Later, he is imprisoned for this talk of a third dimension, and he dreams of himself and the sphere visiting Pointland, where the Point — monarch, sole inhabitant, and universe in one — is unable to perceive them as anything but his own thoughts. This causes him to connect the uncomprehending ignorance of the Point, the king of Lineland, and the rulers of Flatland together with the sphere's astonishment at the thought of some dimension beyond Up.It is part sci-fi, part satire, part philosophy, and part mathematics. Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions".Adaptations include a 1965 animated short (Flatland), a 1982 stop-motion short only available in Italian (Flatlandia), a 2007 animated feature film (Flatland, aka Flatland: The Film), and, confusingly, another 2007 animated film, this one a short (Flatland: The Movie). The story is also summarized by Carl Sagan as part of Cosmos.Tropes:
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Flatland / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Flatland / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: Linelanders have eyes and mouths at both ends. Additionally, males have two voices, baritone from one end and Tenor from the other.
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Flatland / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
Flatland / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Hex is A. Square's son as opposed to Grandson in Flatland: The Film. In this case the extra side is explained as the result of being born with a deformity.
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Flatland / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Flatland / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: In addition to its frank discussion of Euclidean geometry, many of the book's depictions of different dimensions are thinly-veiled social satire, largely concerned with the evolution of social and political systems. Flatland is Abbott's own Victorian Britain—a world whose inhabitants revel in their supposed freedom, but are actually stifled by a rigid class system, shunning any ideas that might expose their limited worldview for what it is. Because they can only think in two dimensions, Flatlanders are utterly incapable of understanding "upward mobility", which is the only way to reach Spaceland and the freedom that it offers. Lineland is a very primitive monarchy, where all power and influence is determined by proximity to to an autocratic king — who is actually just a humble line on a line. Because he only exists in one dimension, the King of Lineland is incapable of even basic movement, since there's no way for anyone to move aside to permit someone else passage, but he's too drunk on his own ego to realize how little his "authority" really matters.
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Flatland / int_1bf94a24	type	The Movie
Flatland / int_1bf94a24	comment	The Movie: You gotta believe them.
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Flatland / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Flatland / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: B. Square in Flatland: The Film is the one responsible for planning the Chromatist massacre (and thus causing the ensuing riot) and later tries to kill his brother in prison. Pantocyclus was originally mostly a Well-Intentioned Extremist, and had legitimate reasons to fear chromatism and 3D. Even in the Darker and Edgier Flatland: The Film he had the occasional Pet the Dog moment. In Flatland: The Movie on the other hand, he has the purely selfish motivation of keeping the circles on the top of the food chain and also has Arthur sentenced to death as opposed to imprisonment.
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Flatland / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Flatland / int_28a5213a	comment	Lineland is a very primitive monarchy, where all power and influence is determined by proximity to to an autocratic king — who is actually just a humble line on a line. Because he only exists in one dimension, the King of Lineland is incapable of even basic movement, since there's no way for anyone to move aside to permit someone else passage, but he's too drunk on his own ego to realize how little his "authority" really matters.
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Flatland / int_2e206837	type	Bed Trick
Flatland / int_2e206837	comment	Bed Trick: An isoceles triangle (lower class, basically serfs) paints himself up as a polygon (aristocracy) in order to bed a woman that had rejected him.
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Flatland / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
Flatland / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: Hex is female in Flatland: The Movie.
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Flatland / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Flatland / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Abbot Square in Flatland: The Movie is far more accepting of the idea of 3D and assists his brother in helping spread the message.
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Flatland / int_4fc0aaa7	type	Makes Just as Much Sense in Context
Flatland / int_4fc0aaa7	comment	Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So by Ian Stewart. Follows another one of A Square's descendents and her ventures with an interdimensional Space Hopper. Sacrifices plot and social commentary for higher math theories and puns.
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Flatland / int_514cba56	type	Sinister Geometry
Flatland / int_514cba56	comment	Sinister Geometry: Averted; Flatlanders value perfect geometric symmetry as a sign of high breeding and intelligence. From a spectator point of view, however, Flatlander society in the indie film is shown to be rather cruel and sinister.
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Flatland / int_54956f54	type	Flat World
Flatland / int_54956f54	comment	Flat World: Not really the Trope Maker, as various cultures have believed in a flat Earth since prehistoric times. But Flatland definitely applies a new spin to the notion.
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Flatland / int_560fd3cb	type	Fan Sequel
Flatland / int_560fd3cb	comment	Fan Sequel: Given that Abbott's book is now in the public domain, several authors have tried their hand at this: An Episode on Flatland: Or How a Plain Folk Discovered the Third Dimension by Charles Howard Hinton. Published way back in 1907, it features a slightly more realistic take on a 2D universe (the Flatlanders in this version exist on the surface of a circular planet rather than just moving through empty space, for instance). "Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe" by Dionys Burger. It features A. Square's grandson and tries to explain curved spaces and expanding universes in the same way Flatland tried to explain dimensions. The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World by A. K. Dewdney. A Spiritual Sequel that focuses on creating a believable 2-D world with its own physics, biology and culture. Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So by Ian Stewart. Follows another one of A Square's descendents and her ventures with an interdimensional Space Hopper. Sacrifices plot and social commentary for higher math theories and puns. "Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension" by Rudy Rucker. A Non-Linear Sequel / Spiritual Sequel with its focus on the plot of Silicon Valley hotshot Joe Cube and his encounter with Momo, a woman from the fourth dimension. The iOS game A Noble Circle is based on the novella.
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Flatland / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
Flatland / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Averted. Flatland women (lines) have the memories of goldfish and come off as Cloudcuckoolanders. One anecdote states that a line once murdered her entire family and then wondered what the hell happened to them a minute later.
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Flatland / int_5663a595	type	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole
Flatland / int_5663a595	comment	Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: Flatland: The Film has a setting update from Victorian England to modern day U.S. so why does the "President" still wear a crown? Flatland: The Movie has objects that don't make sense in a 2D world, such as pink unicorn dolls, a fishtank, and skateboards.
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Flatland / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Flatland / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: More precisely, fantastic classism and fantastic sexism— polygons with more sides are the higher classes; triangles — especially isosceles ones — are servants or soldiers; circles (technically many-many-many-sided polygons) are priests; women of all classes are just linesnote Technically, as explained by A. Square early on, they're actually very narrow rhombuses, but the distinction isn't really important on a practical level.. It is a satire, thinly veiled, of Victorian society.
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Flatland / int_5a36f8bc	type	Not His Sled
Flatland / int_5a36f8bc	comment	Not His Sled: In Flatland: The Movie, Spherius rescues Arthur Square from his death sentence and reveals that he intended his granddaughter Hex to be his prophet.
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Flatland / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Flatland / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: The circles that rule Flatland know that a sphere comes every thousand years to preach the Gospel of Three Dimensions, so they execute any lower-class Flatlander heard spreading the sphere's message and imprison higher-class Flatlanders that do so.
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Flatland / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Flatland / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: A. Square. Take into account that the author's name is Edwin Abbott Abbott. Abbott squared = A, squared.
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Flatland / int_6f572188	type	Another Dimension
Flatland / int_6f572188	comment	Another Dimension: One of the few times in fiction that this term was used correctly.
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Flatland / int_72455542	type	Adaptational Intelligence
Flatland / int_72455542	comment	Adaptational Intelligence: In both 2007 adaptations, females are not nearly as braindead as they are in the book.
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Flatland / int_8010bd0c	type	The War on Straw
Flatland / int_8010bd0c	comment	The War on Straw: The Flatland priests and government officials' view of a world not being flat.
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Flatland / int_80f4e386	type	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance
Flatland / int_80f4e386	comment	Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Former Trope Namer. The King of Pointland believes that he is the only being that exists, because he cannot perceive anything outside of Pointland.
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Flatland / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Flatland / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Flatland: The Film starts to go off the rails in its third act: After hallucinating the King of Pointland, escaping prison and bumping into an both an Identical Stranger and the trapezoid he saw die earlier, A. Square's pursuers are slain by the North Kingdom army. One of the Northern officers begins to chase him, and then everything suddenly goes black. A. Square speaks a single line pleading to see his family, and is answered by an unknown voice. Roll Credits.
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Flatland / int_835f53f3	type	Pals with Jesus
Flatland / int_835f53f3	comment	Pals with Jesus: The hero is befriended by a helpful higher-dimensional being.
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Flatland / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Flatland / int_8409a385	comment	"Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe" by Dionys Burger. It features A. Square's grandson and tries to explain curved spaces and expanding universes in the same way Flatland tried to explain dimensions.
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Flatland / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Flatland / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Romance between the polygonal males and the linear females of Flatland can approach this.
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Flatland / int_89897126	type	New Year Has Come
Flatland / int_89897126	comment	New Year Has Come: The square is seeing in the new year with his wife when the sphere appears to him.
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Flatland / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
Flatland / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: The King of Pointland, who is unable to conceive of anything other than himself.
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Flatland / int_8d53c6d2	type	When Dimensions Collide
Flatland / int_8d53c6d2	comment	When Dimensions Collide: The presence of the more transcendent sphere in Flatland almost embodies this trope.
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Flatland / int_9cbf01d6	type	Stay in the Kitchen
Flatland / int_9cbf01d6	comment	Stay in the Kitchen: Women are restricted in their social roles because they are dangerously sharp lines (well, super narrow rhombuses). They are restricted because they can kill people by walking into them: it is segregation based on a physical characteristic. Lampshaded, in that the Square mentions that it probably seems incredibly misogynistic to the reader, but it beats getting stabbed to death.
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Flatland / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
Flatland / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: Oddly, two were released in the same year (2007). Flatland: The Film was a feature-length indie film. Flatland: the Movie was a big-budgeted edutainment short with an All-Star Cast.
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Flatland / int_a6f23b2d	type	Skepticism Failure
Flatland / int_a6f23b2d	comment	Skepticism Failure: A. Square and the Linelanders are skeptical of higher dimensions, and the plot proves them wrong.
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Flatland / int_a808063f	type	Black-and-White Insanity
Flatland / int_a808063f	comment	Black-and-White Insanity: The ruling caste enforce a Black-and-White Morality worldview to the point where they outlaw color, forcing the world to literally be black and white. Their excuse for this draconian law is that it's needed to preserve the sexual purity of their women.
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Flatland / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
Flatland / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: The third dimension is unfathomably alien to the Flatlanders, and so is the second dimension to the Linelanders. The fourth dimension is briefly discussed.
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Flatland / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Flatland / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: The square eventually is imprisoned for preaching the Gospel of Three Dimensions. No one will believe him, not even his brother, who witnesses the sphere appearing before the Flatland parliament.
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Flatland / int_d17a0ba4	type	Living Polyhedron
Flatland / int_d17a0ba4	comment	Living Polyhedron: All inhabitants of Flatland are two-dimensional polygons. There's also a Sphere, which claims to inhabit a Sphereland with other 3D shapes.
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Flatland / int_d5a84e45	type	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
Flatland / int_d5a84e45	comment	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": The Living Polyhedrons that inhabit Flatland are called "human beings".
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Flatland / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Flatland / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Flatland: The Film: Pantocyclus to President Circle. Lord Sphere to CEO A. Sphere. Flatland: The Movie: A. Square to Arthur Square. B. Square to Abbot Square. Lord Sphere to Spherius.
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Flatland / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Flatland / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: The sole inhabitant of Pointland spends all his time making these speeches to himself, since he has no way of being convinced that anything else even exists.
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Flatland / int_e1836adf	type	Bizarre Alien Sexes
Flatland / int_e1836adf	comment	Bizarre Alien Sexes: The male Flatlanders are polygons of varying angle count (from triangle on up to quasi-circle) in which intelligence is dictated by angle count, while the females are straight lines and nearly mindless.
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Flatland / int_e3ada02f	type	Gender Equals Breed
Flatland / int_e3ada02f	comment	Gender Equals Breed: As discussed above, a male Flatlander will be of his father's shape or one angle higher, while females are straight lines regardless of parentage.
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Flatland / int_e5e07b2d	type	You Cannot Grasp the True Form
Flatland / int_e5e07b2d	comment	You Cannot Grasp the True Form: When the hero is taken into the third dimension by a sphere, he literally Cannot Grasp Its True Form or the other creatures there at first.
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Flatland / int_e8497e34	type	Adaptation Species Change
Flatland / int_e8497e34	comment	Adaptation Species Change: Chromatistes is changed from a pentagon to an "irregular" in Flatland: The Film. A. Square also only has one hexagonal child, with the other being changed to a pentagon. In Flatland: The Movie females are the same shapes as the males.
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Flatland / int_e906fcc0	type	1-Dimensional Thinking
Flatland / int_e906fcc0	comment	1-Dimensional Thinking: Justified in Lineland, in which the second dimension does not exist.
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Flatland / int_ec3ff1f7	type	In Which a Trope Is Described
Flatland / int_ec3ff1f7	comment	In Which a Trope Is Described: All the chapter titles. The second chapter, for instance, is titled "Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland", since the book is supposed to be the Square's description of his country and people.
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Flatland / int_edcc813f	type	Fantastic Caste System
Flatland / int_edcc813f	comment	Fantastic Caste System: A Flatlander's intellect is dictated by the degrees of their angles (for triangles), or how many angles they have (for polygons). A perfectly equilateral triangle is the equivalent to an Intrepid Merchant in brainpower; a square is smart enough to be a lawyer. People with "irregular" angles (One example given was a parallelogram) are predestined to criminality, similar to how some people thought of XYY-Chromosome Disorder patients back in the 80's. Females, being straight lines and therefore having no angles, are universally dumb as, well, posts. Polygons go up one caste every generation, and triangles have a chance at producing a square son, who in turn have a chance of producing pentagonal or triangular sons.
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Flatland / int_f2e808ed	type	Autocannibalism
Flatland / int_f2e808ed	comment	Auto Cannibalism: A. Line (a political prisoner) in the movie does this as a form of suicide before she's executed by the state.
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