There is another sense in which we can say that theatre begins in the round. Teachers in schools frequently observe that the dramatic play of children and their early attempts at theatre frequently take a natural in-the-round shape.

Ovipositor, charming word. My current favorite is callomania: the delusion that one is beautiful. Gotta love Mongrel English in All Her Glory. I'm a bibliophile, bibliotaph, and a lexicomane.

Are you nuts? Don't answer that – it's a rhetorical question.

And of course, if I did accept the premise, then I would not need to draw a conclusion by way of a pseudoargument. “How could anyone fall for such a simplistic argument?” you may ask. Let us not be too hasty in our condemnation.