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Essay On Adam" There Are Five Possibilities. One: Adam Fell. Two: He Was Pushed. Three: He Jumped. Four: He Only Looked Over The Edge, And One Look Silenced Him. Five: Nothing Worth Mentioning Happened To Adam. The First, That He Fell, Is Too Simple. The Fourth, Fear, We Have Tried And Found Useless. The Fifth, Nothing Happened, Is Dull. The Choice Is Between: He Jumped Or Was Pushed. And The Difference Between These Is Only An Issue Of Whether The Demons Work From The Inside Out Or From The Outside In: The One Theological Question.

If Language Is Lost, Humanity Is Lost. If Writing Is Lost, Certain Kinds Of Civilization And Society Are Lost, But Many Other Kinds Remain - And There Is No Reason To Think That Those Alternatives Are Inferior.

To Design Things Means To Interfere With Things: To Think Of How They Might Be And To Alter How They Are. Design Is To Making As Writing Is To Speech: It Is An Ordinary Physical Activity Pushed To A Conscious Edge. That Interference With The Given World Can Still Be Founded On Admiration. Where It Is Not, What Is The Point Of Designing At All?

Wings Are A Constraint That Makes It Possible To Fly.

By All Means Break The Rules, And Break Them Beautifully, Deliberately And Well.