colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) (05/18/84)
[Like, utterly scalene!] Be careful of attributing anti-feminism to Abbott. _Flatland_ contains a good deal of social satire--it's not just an ode to open-mindedness. The narrator, "A Square," naturally holds a lot of stupid middle-class beliefs. I see no clear evidence that Abbott shared them. It is impossible to tell whether the "superiority" of equilateral triangles to isosceles, polygons to lines, etc., were expressions of Abbott's own beliefs or burlesques of his contemporaries'. Can anybody out there tell us something about Abbott? -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel