In hearing A. Round's account of his universe, are there any things about his world that are similar with your experience, my three dimensional audience? He speaks of status as a function of circumference; the larger the circumference, the more social influence one has. Now, although I understand that most of the three dimensional figures I will be addressing here are of the human sort, I believe you should realize that there are some definite analogies that can be drawn in relation to your world. Do not you yourselves also experience status as a function of the space which you occupy? Those beings which have greater height, that one dimensional quality which you possess, have in general greater volume as a matter of fact, an increase in height of a factor "x" will yield an increase of volume to the degree of "x" squared, though this is of course an approximation for you oddly shaped humans. Greater height and greater volume tend to confer an advantage in your brutal world, where size indeed counts, does it not? But even if you believe that this analogy would best serve your savage ancestors than your "civilized" selves, you must agree that social status in your world is given to those who are able to own as much as possible: not merely physical territory, but as many positive attributes as possible. The people of status are those that embrace as many qualities in their circumference as possible. Let this show you that this is one of many analogies that can be made between the dimensions, and that the events of your world are not exclusively to you but involve all dimensions.

But speaking of analogies between dimensions, one interesting analogy that could be made about the respective world of A. Ligned and A. Round is that of their origins. By origins I refer to something similar to what you schooled humans have referred to as the "origin" of a Cartesian graph that is, a point. And here is my point. Both of these beings began their lives as mere points and expanded given two constraints: the first of these is the dimensional constraint of their universe, the second is the material provided by the higher dimensional form which made the life possible. As I provide you with the documentation of the upcoming world, that is, your world, you will see what material was available to provide life for A. Round and his curvilinear network of friends. Another apparent similarity between dimensions is that A. Round fears the same ending as A. Ligned feared that is, that they should return to being a point, and then, (the inconceivable) disappear. Thus we see that, despite the discrepancy in dimension, life and death for both of them consist of one critical point a position of no dimensionality whatsoever.

A. Round speaks sympathetically of his friend, E. Lips, a poor soul who was crafted for whatever reason different than the other beings in A. Round's neighborhood. Consequently, he suffered from a great deal of abuse from the bullies, circles of great magnitude for their age, but whom we can suspect had a fear of lapsing into ellipse at any point. The discussion of E. Lips is an important concept which I hope you three dimensional beings grasp, particularly you humans, who are certainly no strangers to the practice of discrimination. From your vantage point, the discrimination to which E. Lips was subject is something which you would find absurd. Likewise, I ask you to think about the discrimination you exercise in your world and whether or not you are justified in doing so.

My argument is that discrimination can only be based on ignorance of the higher dimensional causes of objects as they appear to a being. Unfortunately, discrimination is a phenomenon which is exacerbated as you climb the dimensional ladder. Why is this? Well, starting in the world of A. Ligned, we saw that our character's possession of dimension and the lack of dimension of his endpoints could have allowed for one type of discrimination in his world. (Of course, we know this to be a bit absurd since Alex and Beatrice are A. Ligned). As we advance into the higher dimensions, we see that with every added dimension, there are a plethora of ways in which a being can deviate. As we have seen in this two dimensional world, E. Lips has another dimension by which he can deviate by more than just length but rather can deviate by a certain relationship between his length and his width. For this reason, we use the term "degrees of freedom", as we allow each being to take on new forms of physical expression; the term of course is unfortunately ironic, because often it entails the oppression of certain classes rather than the freedom to be. I should hope that you three dimensional beings, particularly you animated humans, can learn to stop discriminating against minority classes of beings but rather take them as a sign of the degrees of freedom in your universe. I shall here cease to address your moral reasoning and return to your theoretical reasoning.

I turn now to the universe with which you are all so comfortable perhaps too comfortable and that is your own. You will see the character responsible for the life span of our friend A. Round, and you may even try to conceive of the character who is responsible for the life span of E. Lips, with whom I was unfortunately not able to contact. I ask you to listen more carefully then you did for all the others; I want you to be able to draw the analogies between the lower dimensional documentation and this one so that you may even guess what is the source of your own universe and the source of your life. In this way I hope to open up your speculative reason to new philosophical considerations you might not have been aware of before.

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