Thresholds. A Look at a Few Stages of Architecture
Thresholds. A Look at a Few Stages of Architecture

Summary/Abstract: It is not jokes the White Queen is telling. This fragile character, no more queen than Alice, is pointing out the necessity of exercising our imagination. Nothing in Looking Glass country is what it seems to be, so you need to believe things to make them exist. The only being the artifact environment can pretend to is such a fictitious one that its objective existence cannot, in itself, achieve anything beyond its artificiality. A few chapters further in the same book, Humpty-Dumpty falls off the wall and no earthly power can restore him to life. Two essential features of manmade world are expressed here. First, creation by humans is but illusion2 as nothing we make lives; second, once the spell is broken, we can do but little to “put [it] in his place again”

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