The Darkness of Edwin A. Abbotts Flatland Essay -- Abbott Flatland E

The Darkness of Flatland     â â â â â â â â â â â â â â â The brilliant sand shines in the splendid daylight. The  â â â â â â â â brilliant bars hit the quiet waves which amplify the intense light.  â â â â â â â â Content and excited, numerous feathered creatures fly high overhead. On the   â â â â â â â beach, an irritating crab moves toward an ostrich, pressuring the  â â â â â â â â grounded fledgling to conceal its head in an opening in the sand.â Paralyzed  â â â â â â â â with dread, the mammoth fledgling, albeit gigantic in contrast with the  â â â â â â â â assaulting crab, covers its head neglected, wet sand, trusting  â â â â â â â â that the weak however dismal aggressor will leave.â Comfortable  â â â â â â â â with its horrid concealing spot, the enormous, unbalanced winged animal remains  â â â â â â â â covered as long as its can remember, never encountering the encouraging life  â â â â â â â â which the light creates. Since the feathered creature is threatened by this  â â â â â â â â infinitesimal however undermining crab, the ceaseless pattern of dread  â â â â â â â â continues.â Much like this startled winged creature and the residents of  â â â â â â â â Flatland, people prefe... ...nbsp;â thoughts. Regularly, pioneers dread irregulars since they talk the  â â â â â â â â truth. Arthur, aâ conceived again sporadic through his encounters,  â â â â â â â â recounts another method of living and endeavoring to liveâ right and not  â â â â â â â â to fear the obscure, yet to carry it away from any confining influence, investigate it,  â â â â â â â â and to gain from it.â They will consistently depend on rationale and  â â â â â â â â custom, overlooking confidence and thoughts put together not with respect to actuality. Flatland  â â â â â â â â will stay without light until the end of time.     â â â â â â â â Â