"hexagons don't have gills" is the name of my early 00's light supernatural kids book about a geometry teacher who's secretly a swamp creature
@HTHR it's like flatland meets goosebumps
@lycaon sometimes i think about flatland and GOD that poor little shape must've been so fucked up by the sphere just. appearing out of nowhere
@HTHR i love flatland a whole lot and i think a lot about how like it was written as mostly a satire of victorian england but has survived entirely because of the perspective it gives on dimensionality
also the dude who wrote it was named edwin abbott abbott. that should be illegal.
@lycaon me too tbh -- one of my life goals is to make a game that perfectly works as an allegory for the geopolitical state of italy in 2423
@HTHR have you, perchance, read any borges
because that is an extremely borgesian thing to do
@lycaon i haven't -- should i?
@HTHR yes
go to the library and get either "labyrinths" or "ficciones" and it will kick your dick off
@lycaon oh hell yes i gotta get on that
@lycaon "it will kick your dick off" is the best review of anything i've ever heard and i ABSOLUTELY need it in my life
@lycaon and also my dick off. c'mon buddy. get off my body already
@HTHR also a lot of his stuff is available online, i highly recommend "the library of babel", "pierre menard, author of the quixote", and "the garden of forking paths"
@lycaon hell yeah i'll look it up soon as i'm done with this essay
@lycaon that dude's name sounds like someone who couldn't remember the name of the shitty kid from the lion the witch and the wardrobe holy shit
@HTHR i am always fascinated by works of art that gain new contexts and lose old ones over time