[extropy-chat] For Us, The Living

[Bret Kulakovich]

Mike,

Ever read Flatland?

=)

kulakovich

On Jan 6, 2004, at 12:21 PM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

>
> --- randy <cryoofan at mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 17:14:57 -0600, you wrote
>>
>>
>>
>>> One rock
>>> selected him and came straight toward him. It was a handsome rock,
>> flat on
>>> one side and brilliant while in the sunshine. A sharp edge faced him
>> and
>>> grew and grew and grew until it encompassed the whole world. >
>>
>>
>> Geez, someone's been reading a bit too much Hemingway....
>>
>> I guess RAH got the Hemingway out of his system with this book, cuz I
>> have never before noticed the similarity....
>
> What I want to know is how an edge can encompass a whole world. An edge
> is a line, i.e. it has only one dimension. What sort of non-euclidean
> trick was used to make a one dimensional geometric object encompass all
> of 3 dimensional space???
>
> =====
> Mike Lorrey
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>                                        - Mike Lorrey
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