"And
shall you not relent?"
"Shall
a geometrical proposition relent? I am not so superficial."
"Doesn't
geometry treat of surfaces?" asked Mrs. Almond, who, as we know,
was clever, smiling.
"Yes,
but it treats of them profoundly. Catherine and her young man are my
surfaces; I have taken their measure."
Well
done Henry James! It´s no a novelty that he is a terrific genius,
and in this text he proves it by inserting scientific contents in
Literature in a charming and smart way. He achieves with this that
the intelligence of some character shines although what really shines
is, of course, his own intelligence.
We
are going to clarify, however, that in the text we are told about
Plane Geometry not Space or Three-dimensional one, because in Space
Geometry does exists depth.
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