[produced from the first draft of my first thesis chapter, which you're welcome to go comment on]
you’ve been asked to choose a triangle.
absolutely any triangle.
Go on, choose a triangle now;
loop a string around two nails and then pull it
beyond the scope of this thesis
What concerns us now is that space itself.
a family of triangles.
this six-dimensional volume of possibilities
so as to avoid thorny subjectivities
just make up some combination
without using a model at all.
a perfect design model would contain only perfect designs and no others
you’d probably be best off to stop
you’re pretty sure won’t be any good.
it holds only those we still think we might want
without consciously thinking about their trim and rudder.
You might have to accept a
hyperplane tangent
called explanations
admittedly limited; one is rather more likely to use
the “timeline” to which they are automatically appended
(which for simplicity we’ll consider a type of cell)
all points reached from some starting point
left lingering questions
in order to see if we might find a way