The Two-sided Point
or How the Box Became One Dimensional
January 12, 1971
The Two-sided Point
or How the Box Became One Dimensional
January 12, 1971
Looking down the hall
I noticed a young woman
Stepping out of a door
And at the same time
I saw her
leaving the room
through that door
It was a natural case
Of unthinking thought
Of seeing the positive effect
of the negative
Of seeing the second image
without knowledge of the
first
Turning the corner of the
curving hall
I stumbled on a non-existent
existence
It was a rubber tube
with no insides
I picked it up and
lightly flung it violently
into the void behind me
Leaving the first floor
I walked up two flights of stairs
and entered the basement
It was a very small room
with no walls
On the left there hung a painting
of a one-dimensional object
I laid on the floor, staring
at the ceiling
And gradually fell into a deep sleep
Dreaming about seeing myself
lying on the floor
while doing just that.