Show Why not make the house like the tree in the first place. Here would be the solution to this hypocritical dualism. The tree close to the house does not hide the schizophrenia between the two. I don"t think of Euclidian space as space at all in the first place. For me to speak of the two "models" - tree and house - being in conflict is a contradiction in terms an exercise in nihilism. For the sake of communication though in the present mode what we have is two utterly contradictory spacial models trying to cohabitate resulting in a probable spiritual breakdown of the nervous system. I find it difficult to speak of points lines and planes as a spacial concept. In this sense man has no environment. Points lines and planes don't exist so how could any construct of these concepts have a reality. The glass walls of the twentieth century prove that Euclidian space is only a ghost a phantom a fantasy of an absurd imagination. We live in a dream a nightmare trying to make sense of things scurrying around pushing trees and shrubs up against the prison walls. There is one "model." The hypocrisy is in fact a backhanded way of pointing to nature as the reality to begin with as we struggle toward eden. Two thousand years before Christ the hanging gardens of Babylon were an early admission of spacial ignorance. From Babylon to New York the fear of the suffocation of abstraction has had man fleeing across the landscape planting as he went yet to no avail his world is now a hell of "upended coffins of steel." (15) The tree by the house does not make the house a tree but the -28- |