FLATLAND AND THE UNIVERSAL COLOR BILL

By Colleen

HISTORY OF COLOR IN A NUTSHELL

Color was discovered by a pentagon, referred to as Chromastistes, who

discovered how the basic elements to make paint. He used the paint to tell one

end from another, but eventually color threw Flatland into chaos, so color was

eradicated from the land.

THE BEGINNING OF COLOR

Chromastistes colored everything in his house, including his father, sons, and

grandsons, and finally himself. No one mistook one end of him for the other end.

The fashion spread like wildfire, so eventually every triangle and square

around had become colored.

THE FASHION OF COLOR

Each shape has distinct colors. Here are a few shapes that have succumbed to color:

Isosceles: black, orange, and purple

Equilateral: red, white, and blue

Women: red and green

Priests: red and green

A NOTE TO THE READER

The women and priests were the last to accept colored sides. They are colored

the same, but this causes chaos in itself. Since the practice of feeling and sight has gone out of use, since everyone is colorful,

no one can distinguish between them. Priests are being mistaken for women and

vice versa.

THE START OF THE DOWNFALL OF COLOR

The Color Bill lasted for 3 years after the circles and women were forced to be as

the other shapes until a civil war was waged. An army of polygons was

defeated by the isosceles triangles and to the record 23 circles had perished.

THE DABBLING OF AN ISOSCELES TRIANGLE

It just so happens that a isosceles triangle with a vertex degree of 4 had plundered a tradesman’s shop and had accidentally dabbled in the colors of a dodecagon. Under the false pretenses of a dodecagon, he had married a woman who he had admired, and when she realized whom she had married, she committed suicide.

AND SO THE COLOR BILL IS FALLING

When the citizens of Flatland heard of this, chaos ensued. Chromastistes predicted

after this incident what would happen if the color bill continued to stay in effect. A

fierce battle, with the circles guiding the women against the criminal class

(isosceles), perused victory after slaying many and the rest losing heart to battle.

COLOR EXISTS NO MORE

After color was abolished, if anyone, besides circles and qualified teachers, uttered anything about color they would be punished severely.

The only place that color still existed was in higher math classes for the purpose of

illustrating problems. Only one person, the chief circle, knows the secret of color and only passes it down to his successor when on his

death bed. Only one factory makes color anymore and the workers are annually

consumed and new ones introduced for the sake of keeping it a secret.

FIN.