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Show ...the wounded Apollo 13 swerved homeward, her desperate crew intent, if nothing else availed, upon leaving their ashes on the winds of earth. A love for earth, almost forgotten in man's roving mind, had momentarily reasserted its mastery, a love for the green meadows we have so long taken for granted and desecrated to our cost. Man was born and took shape amoung earth's leafy shadows. The most poignant thing the astronauts had revealed in their extremity was the nostalgic call still faintly ringing on the winds from the sunflower forest. Loren Eisely (29j Analogue 8) Gesta.lt Knit When the dynamic order, juxtaposition, proximity, and reciprocation is correct we have a knitting process in the gestalt. Gestalt is a reference to the importance of the whole over the parts - that the parts derive their character and importance as a result of their participation in a particular whole space. This whole space is then yet to become a part of a yet larger gestalt. Our attention is kept at the micro level since the macro (gestalt) levels are never complete. -57- |