Jan. 13, 2020, 7:31 p.m.

chptr1

wonder systems

[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


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