• eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Jonathan Swift got there first:

    “If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, ellipses, and other geometrical terms, or by words of art drawn from music, needless here to repeat.”

    Gulliver’s Travels, Part 3 Chapter 2