subsequent conversion to Sufiism. Huh. That makes a lot of sense from what I remember of the way the whole thing ended, with Yendred's time under the tutelage

subsequent conversion to Sufiism. Huh. That makes a lot of sense from what I remember of the way the whole thing ended, with Yendred's time under the tutelage of Drabk the Sharak. Hello weird names still stuck in my head after thirty or so years. Not that this wasn't also a theme in Abbot's earlier Flatland, most of his other writing was theology, and it, too, climaxes with a mystical experience for its 2D protagonist. But A. Square ends up back in his flat world, writing from a madhouse, rather than transcending it and going on to... something inexplicable. I have spent time poking against this sort of thing and madness is definitely a possible result.