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On Symmetry and the Necessary Flaw

Perfect balance is silent. A dialogue tracing where symmetry breaks, and how the flaw becomes form, life, and meaning.

Move 14

names of Move 13 — The whole dialogue in four lines.

Ring the bells that still can ring / Forget your perfect offering / There is a crack, a crack in everything / That's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen (1992), Anthem
Move 15

concludes of Move 14

Then we will not seek the flawless board, the perfect canon, the unbroken symmetry. We will set one stone off-center, and listen for the sound the still water makes.

The dialogue is concluded

The crack is not the failure of the form. It is the form's first breath.