In the discussion, I was surprised a bit to see the portion of Ogden Nash poem described as a "para". I would have expected "stanza". The last two lines "We'll all be Kansas, By and By." allusion puzzled me for a bit. I suppose it meant that Kansas was also excessively anti-smut. In looking up Atlas, I noticed a Greek statue, showing Atlas semi-kneeling, with a sphere representing the World on his shoulders. It was not dated, but it appears to show that the Greeks did not think the world was flat.My dictionary seems to be wrong in its statement that Atlas was condemned to bear the Heavens on his shoullders.

PS: I know that Eratosthenes and Aristotle knew the world was a sphere. I was just commenting that the acceptance of that sculpture meant that only the really ignorant believed the world was flat. What a bunch of kooks have sites about it!