Wednesday, January 08, 2014

He was a geometric illustration

Nature, stretching Horace Davenport out, had forgotten to stretch him sideways, and one could have pictured Euclid, had they met, nudging a friend and saying, "Don't look now, but this chap coming along illustrates exactly what I was telling you about a straight line having length without breadth."

(from Uncle Fred in the Springtime)

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