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75 10 (Architectural Drawing) A dome is the support of the bridge-in-all-directions, anywhere the weathervane seated on it points. The arch of each foot stands on half the dome of human balance, the start point of the arc made step our walking is, a colonnade of landing, uplift, then falling forward. The course the great domes of this program take to bridge over mortality they think is to shape time and history, or their stomp of progress ---arcing up andfallingdown, the great capitols each atop the other’s emptied footprint. Geometries have narrative, story, program the building poses in its fit to the senses, the spatial drama of its lines as built idea. Even the heavenly dome’s turning up is upside down made begging bowl for wandering oceans for others’ souls exploitation; the capsized human balance hung an upside down, the foot’s upturned arches cupped into a ship’s hold carrying each step’s ground gained by trampling another’s. 76 The one who throws his feet up on the rest is taken over an edge the earth shouldn’t have for falling off itself— a deceiver’s map— for flattening its curve into collapse from cathedral grade line to old scratch. ...

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