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May 04, 2003 11:00

The Elizabethans believed that nature's spheres reflect man's spheres.

It's a Venn diagram. A bonding pair. The natural order, the human society, with the individual humans holding them together. The electrons.

But these spheres are unequal. And the tugs, the charges alter, adapt, change. One moment, it is the human order that pulls, an individual is removed from nature, lost perspective, absorbed in the other humans and the communal human life. Another moment, nature takes hold, grips the human and rips them from society, making it alien, unimportant. But most times, it is a sharing. An overlap. It is when they are balanced. Everything passed over, without a thought, or meandered through with deep contemplation. This is the balance that humans live in, that allows for interaction with all aspects of their lives. And it is the imbalance, the instability which is abnormality. But of course the imbalance in favor of human society is far less noticeable. Hidden, buried. Blurred. Deceptive.

Two tangent circles. And the human, the point of tangency. The solution of the set.
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