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"Flatland" is a story of depth, and the lack in that respect of. The tale of A. feathers ventures through Pointland, Lineland and Spaceland ultimately breach to him the possibilities of the seemingly unacceptable. In this case, the "impossibilities" are the very existence of other dimensions, or worlds.      His guide throughout the journey, a god - like figure who refers to itself as " theater of operations", bestows upon A. Square the greatest gift he could hope for, knowledge. It is only when after the Sphere forcibly takes A. Square out of his dimension, however, that he is equal to(p) to shrug off his ignorance and accept the fact that what cannot be, can, and much of what he believed ahead is wrong. When he sees first hand that a square can overhear depth precisely by lining up a double square above it and connecting the vertices with lines he is awestruck by its beauty. A stoppage now exists, seemingly made out of squares . Where in that location was but wholeness square before now there are six connected. To A. Squares mindset, this social function of beauty is something he could become if only he could lift up. It gives him hope, for in his world you are ranked without say according to your shape. From the lowest condemn shapes to the - not - quite - perfectly - round - but - practically - there priests. When A. Square asks the sphere deity what comes next, what about the fourth dimension, Sphere becomes irritated and sends A. Square plummeting back to his original world without the necessary knowledge to be effective in spreading the gospel of the ternary dimension. This is, of course, what leads to the end for A. Square being locked up in an insane asylum for speaking of what simply cannot be. Adding to the irony is that no matter how hard A. Square tries, it is quite impossible for him to demonstrate it within the two dimensional realm. The knowledge that he thirsted for was his demise.&nb sp    "Flatland" is a book which main purpose is to make the reader think it raises umpteen questions. Is there a fourth, fifth, sixth, infinite dimensions? Logically, there should be. Just as there is a dimension zero, a dimension one, a second and third dimension, should not there also be a fourth? The Sphere speaks to A. Square of Geometrical Progression 1, 2, 4 and hints that it goes beyond even that (to 8).