let's think about Mending Wall in light of Christopher Alexander https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44266 …
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there are lots of ways to read it and mostly they're "boundaries are bad m'kay" but that's wrong
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the narrator mocks his neighbor a bit but the narrator is HIMSELF the one who bugs his neighbor to repair the wall every year
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"something there is that doesn't love a wall" yes, it's entropy and decay - these boundaries are what define space for peopling
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boundaries create good spaces - the light, raised platform, awnings etc. create space for sitting AND walkingpic.twitter.com/NFDdXYkpCs
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where there are no good boundaries, uses conflict and nobody likes itpic.twitter.com/q2ogFGLCS8
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boundaries are created by both "sides" - a product of mutual expression of intelligence, will, life (stone wall in Mending Wall)
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good boundaries like this in art abound - each "side" made from complementary (if not equal) complexity, harmonizingpic.twitter.com/sTj8LIZixO
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good boundaries make "outdoor rooms" - lack of boundaries, lack of positive space make dead spaces nobody will usepic.twitter.com/GvOAbcZmeC
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here are some boundaries that are NOT harmonious expressions of mutual intelligence, life, will lolpic.twitter.com/k4vN6Nz6ky
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boundaries made of harmonious complexity of equally-alive parts also appears in music - I'm a philistine but two examples:
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beach boys stack-o-vocals God Only Knows - harmony in the second half https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_pO1xeRh0Ro …
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& timbaland's little symphony Lovestoned - first part (dance track) perfectly bounded from/connected with interlude https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QUuKvHHt8Sk …
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