Flatland is like America They both identify people in different ways In Flatland classes are distinguished by using Hearing Feeling and by Sight Feeling determines the shape of someone by feeling one of their angles It is therefore not necessary as a rule to do more than feel a single angle of an individual and this once ascertained tells us the class of the person whom we are addressing unless indeed he belongs to the higher sections of the nobility 36 To use the Sight you need fog In the U S