Machinen, Geräte, Werkzeuge breiten Ordnungen aus. Ritual und Tanz waren die ersten Maschinen der Geschichte. Sie stabilisierten das Innen und ermöglichten so erst eine stabile Wahrnehmung (Mumford).
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Technology throws light upon mental conceptions.
“intervals of gradualness.”
Quantity into quality.
Or sweetness: where there is more light than logic.
A full number of things in a very few words.
(Louis Zukofsy: A acht)

Source: Rudolf zur Lippe: Geometrisierung des Menschen. Oldenburg: Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem der Universität Oldenburg, 1983, p. 33

Paracelsus`Book of Bad and Good Fortune:
The sun shines upon all of us equally
With its luck. The summer comes
To all of us equally
With its luck. Our love is unequal
(Louis Zukofsky: A zwölg)

Stinkhorns are amazing mushrooms, notorious for popping up suddenly and unexpected in urban settings. (M.Kuo)