WHEN THEY SAY THINGS

When they say things to you, “this is a normal response,“ “there’s a path through the forest, “ “it’s all part of the plan,” “you’ll get through this,” strike people across the neck, take away their breath, or cause them to bleed. It is true that there is a path through the forest, but there are many paths there, and some of them are only used by animals.

One way of envisioning this problem is to consider the city – over thousands of years the conception of the city has changed so much so that we can think of the ship of Theseus. Then we think of the labyrinth and we’re already off track. The idea has been betrayed when we think of the labyrinth. Too many people are thinking of the labyrinth.

The city may have once been a circle of one hundred stone houses.