Flatland
Highlights
The lower-middle classes were equally invested in emphasizing their superiority to what they considered to be the less respectable classes below them.
Introduction (Location 143)
and I am mocked at— I, the sole possessor of the truths of Space and of the theory of the introduction of Light from the world of Three Dimensions— as if I were the maddest of the mad!
FLATLAND (Location 755)