What we might usually describe as movement must as a consequence of this new incredulity towards endless perspective be renegotiated as a relationship between levels. The stackable matryoshka cosmos cannot be properly understood in terms of here or there, where here is, for example the sofa, and there is, for example the ruins of the Library at Alexandria.
It is rather that there is a communication between a finite but probably uncountable (fingers are of limited quantity for natural intelligences) set of layers, which can best be achieved through the use of what Sally describes as “mystical tools”.
The telephone, to paraphrase Lawrence Durrell, is the modern symbol of conversations that never happen. In its most transcendent phase it is heard, but not heard, in an abandoned office at the hour of zero point midnight.
The hammer on the other hand is a workhorse who sees challenges in terms of whether they can be identified as a nail or not. The state of not nail is considered desirable by most conscious entities in that it prevents them from receiving impact from the business end of the hammer.
Hammer time.


