![]() ![]() That women are but simple line-segments and men are polygons with many sides gives the book a symbolic and metaphoric slant right from the start. Square, is a member of the professional caste in society and begins the story leading his life in a two-dimensional world. The actual author of the 1884 book is Edwin Abbott Abbott, an English schoolteacher. Square also imagines a land with four dimensions, which is considered a subversive concept. Some of the places he ventures into are Spaceland, which has three dimensions, Lineland, which is one-dimensional, and Pointland, which does not have any dimensions. Square together with numerous other geometric shapes. ![]() Men are polygons and the number of sides they have is dependent on their ranking in the social hierarchy. Women are straight lines and are considered the lowest of shapes. Square (a pseudonym originally given as the author of the book), a mathematician who lives there. Flatland is a two-dimensional world chronicling the adventures of A. ![]() It is a math- and science-based novella that creates a fictional land while at the same time satirizing Victorian culture and introducing theories of space’s multi-dimensional nature. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a literary hybrid. ![]()
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T he African Choir were a group of young South African singers that toured Britain between 18. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She tackles such timelessly debated questions as “How do dogs know they have penises?” We see how her vacuum cleaner almost set her house on fire, how she was attacked by three bears, business ideas she wants to pitch to Shark Tank, and why she can never go back to the post office. Jenny discusses the frustration of dealing with her insurance company in “An Open Letter to My Insurance Company,” which should be an anthem for anyone who has ever had to call their insurance company to try and get a claim covered. In Broken, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty. Download a free excerpt from Jenny Lawson's Broken (in the best possible way)!įrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson comes her most personal book yet.Īs Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. ![]() ![]() He has investigated questions ranging from the nature of exploding stars to issues of the origin of all mass in the universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist with wide research interests, including the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, where his studies include the early universe, the nature of dark matter, general relativity and neutrino astrophysics. The knowledge that our universe will be quite different in the far future has profound implications for the future of the universe and everything in it. One with zero total energy can expand outward forever so that empty space is therefore destined to give birth to a universe that has the characteristics that ours has.įinally, physicists have recently begun to address the origin of the existence of space and the laws of physics-and how these change over time. At a microscopic scale quantum mechanics implies all systems are fluctuating, exploring all possible allowed states at any instant. Put more simply perhaps: nothingness is unstable. Second, quantum mechanics, when applied to the universe, requires something to come from nothing. ![]() It is hard to imagine how a universe that arose from nothing could have been any different, or why a universe that didnt should be so finely tuned. The central argument of A Universe from Nothing stems from three discoveries about the nature of the universe: First, that the total energy of our universe if precisely zero, a fact that didnt have to be true, and is highly suggestive. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, 17-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. You can read this before Matrix PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī Financial Times and NPR Best Book of 2021 A Virginia Living Favorite Book (2021) Lauren Groff returns with her exhilarating first new novel since the groundbreaking Fates and Furies. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Matrix written by Lauren Groff which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Matrix by Lauren Groff ![]() ![]() In fact, this play reminds me of one of my own plays, which I wrote in my early adulthood and which consisted of poetry that was integrated into a plot about a high school student who was struggling with a poetry writing assignment. TimesĪdmittedly, this play is not a terrible one. A brooding and loving American folk poem brought to life on a stage."-N.Y. An evening of astonishingly stirring emotional satisfaction." -N.Y. ![]() "A dramatic presentation reduced to its simplest terms. Both the solid and humorous sides of life are portrayed, with fetching ballads, and the free verse form of Masters. There are 60 odd characterizations and vignettes in this constantly interesting entertainment offering an amazingly varied array of roles and impersonations, from young lovers and preachers and teachers to the funny chronicle of the poor mixed up Jew who ends up in the wrong cemetery. Via musical interludes, we are introduced in a cemetery to the ghosts of those who were inhabitants of this town, and whose secrets have gone with them to the grave. Charles Aidman, conceived from Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthologyĭramatic Platform Readings w/incidental music, songs ![]() |