TWO WORLDS, A WALL AND LABYRINTH (INFERRED)

I.

Primum mobile: Medieval image of the limits of knowledge; yet, in an iconic, renowned image, one finds one way or another ‘through’ …

II.

Peepholes: One finds, as well, peepholes -- drilled by hand-held ‘augurs’, by phenomenologists and atheologists, toward seeing what ‘lies’ on the other side … And one might peep through the same, over the shoulders of those drilling the holes (little holes, sometimes boring little holes), but nonetheless holes in the wall …

III.

Artillery: Others, yet, are bombarding the wall with heavy artillery, seeking to demolish ‘it’ … ‘It’, apparently, has no real purpose (right of existence), but is (putatively) man-made (a mere confabulation, construction, conceit to be demolished) …

IV.

Admirers: Others admire the wall, walk straight up to ‘it’, and greet it, saying, “What a lovely wall … See my House VI, or Wall House …”, and/or insert little notes declaiming its beauty, utility, antiquity … Yet some time, some place, some how this wall appeared of Necessity to protect/guard the archaic fold (division) in all things; mere fancy or architectural conundrum, two worlds survive in one, till two become One …

V.

Heaven and Earth: Heaven on Earth … One and not the Same, under two skies, till/to/for Time Immemorial -- red herring and red thread …

GK (12/04/06)