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{{quote|''One upon a time, there was a sensible straight line who was hopelessly in love... with a dot.''|'''Opening narration'''}}

''The Dot and the Line: a Romance in Lower Mathematics'' is a short book written and illustrated in 1963 by Norton Juster (of ''[[The Phantom Tollbooth]]'' fame). Inspired by ''[[Flatland]]'', It follows the story of a straight line who is hopelessly in love with a dot. The dot, however, is in love with a squiggle. The line learns how to manipulate himself and wins the heart of the dot.

In 1965, Juster wrote a screenplay and acclaimed animator [[Chuck Jones]] animated it. It won an [[Academy Award]] for Animated Short Film.

[http://youtu.be/OmSbdvzbOzY You can watch the cartoon in its entirety on You Tube here]. (Ten minutes long.)

== Tropes in this story: ==
* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: The dot to the squiggle.
* [[All Work vs. All Play]]
* [[Animated Adaptation]]: The 1965 short.
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: "But even allowing for his feelings, this was probably stretching a point.", and of course the moral (see [[Spoof Aesop]], below).
* [[MGM Oneshot Cartoons]]
* [[One-Dimensional Thinking]]: Seems to be the dot's problem with the line.
* [[Spoof Aesop]]: "To the [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Vector]] Belong the Spoils"

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[[Category:The Sixties]]
[[Category:The Dot and the Line]]