"A Romance of Many Demensions' by Edwin A. Abbot. In this story by Edwin A. Abbot is Abbot telling us to strive for perfection or to be content with what we have?

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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin A. Abbot, is a fictional story that tells of life in two dimensions through the eyes of A. Square, the narrator. Then the square begins to experience other dimensions through thoughts and dreams such as Lineland, a land of one dimension, and Pointland, a land of zero dimensions. He cannot, however, conceptualize three dimensions. Finally, after a stranger brings him into three dimensions and back and the …

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…the color problem arises and when the square explores three dimensions. After these incidents the shapes in Flatland always just end up miserable. It is just so much better for the events never to have taken place, for the citizens to have realized how great their lives already are and lived with any small possible problems. After all, suffering with these small problems is so much less than the huge problems that would have occurred.