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Title: Classic irony has alot to say about year 2000
Review: I disagree w/last reviewer. Flatland doesn't just lampoon the 1880's. Victorian is Abbott's writing style. But his social comment is as sharp today as Gulliver, and Screwtape's. If you can't spot the irony the entire book is offensive. If you do spot it, the parallels between say - its women & the current suppression in Afganistan, or education & Chinease purges, or angling up & US college sport programs - are hilarious and bone chilling. Abbot's guesses on equator based navigation are quite accurate. North swimming bacteria actually have a lot in common with the travelers in Flatland.
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