On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 13:43:26 +0100
"Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <off...@klepp.biz> wrote:

> Anno domini 2021 Fri, 19 Mar 13:18:04 +0100
>  Florian Zieboll via Dng scripsit:
> > On March 19, 2021 12:18:17 PM GMT+01:00, Florian Zieboll via Dng
> > <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote:
> >
> > > a sphere
> >
> > Or, lol, should I say: a curved plane?
> >
> > With best regards from Flatland,
>
> And I thought Germany is "Neuland" :)


Just a reference to Edwin Abbott's brilliant "romance of many
dimensions" (1884):
https://archive.org/details/flatland00abbo_475/page/n43/mode/2up

And no, Germany is not Neuland: It's rather one of its wannabe colonial
powers... They are still not twigging that the famous "proverb of the
Cree" was not a piece of "indian" wisdom but a rancorous curse!

A cursed plane^^



--

We were eating the same food
at the same time.

- Iggy Pop
  in "Gimme Danger"
  (Jarmusch, 2016)
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