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HanaBothWays t1_jaa15ob wrote

Flatland is really a satire about British social structure and the difficulty of imagining alternatives though…

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violetsprouts t1_jaat36t wrote

Munmun also does this. It's an alternate world where buying power determines your actual physical size. The littlepoors are the size of mice, while the extra rich are the size of skyscrapers. It's not an enormously popular book, but I like it.

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sashanktungu OP t1_jaa3zuq wrote

I’d go further and say its a satire on the world social structure.

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Fleckeri t1_jadncoa wrote

It’s the reason why Flatland women were represented by 1-D lines: they were perceived by many Victorian men as rather stupid, often invisible, and incredibly dangerous.

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