deep within tragic heart of the human condition,

more basic [even] than the need for existential

comforts [food shelter sex] exists: the absolute

necessity and utter futility underlying the human

need to find order: a line—center line, ley line, line

drawn in the sand, borderline, line of longitude or

latitude, line born from point translated to plane

extruded to volume [and god divided the mass

from the void and there was space]—manifests

desire for order existing as a kind of psycholog-

ical shibboleth, a mental signifier of territory, a

sisyphian stab at a reversal of entropy and just to

think all our wars and com-

forts depend on the line; a

phantom, a thing that does

not exist—but for geometry!

the image of probability: of

a thing or things or relation-

ship between things that is/

are or was/were or will be, of

the imaginary needle in the

fuzzy data cloud haystack of

the illusion of territory, of the

quantum particles of geometry:

the fiction upon which rests our

collective and necessary delu-

sion of political, social, sexual

or any other order