Oddly enough, a place like Flatland, Orwell’s world of 1984, Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale, all strike me as only extremes of what we live ourselves right now.
Square has awakened from his dream of Lineland to find a visitor from the three-dimensional world of Spaceland in his home. Just as he tried to explain his world and grew frustrated with the failure of the Lineland Monarch to comprehend a second dimension, Square cannot conceive what his visitor is describing.
Experience affected by knowledge into change of perception.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology