Circles
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Government Conspiracy: The circles that rule Flatland know that a sphere comes every thousand years to preach the Gospel of Three Dimensions, so they execute any lower-class Flatlander heard spreadng the sphere's message and imprison higher-class Flatlanders that do so.
Source: Literature / Flatland - While the color varies, the basic form is a large sphere (Duh.) that has concentric circles constantly rotating around it, while producing an annoying hum.
Source: Literature / The Will Be Done -
Note that the Discworld is not a sphere (circles with π = 3 and triangles with three right angles both do in fact appear in non-Eulidean spherical geometry).
Source: Alien Geometries
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