The invention of symbols
Made discontinuity.
The world is continuous,
But symbols invented gaps,
Made space possibility.
Politeness is intimate
Distance, the literary
Social theorist muses,
Concerning symbolic space,
Yet while the intimacy
May be physical contact,
The distance is metaphor,
The more metaphorical
The more it has to balance
The stress of intimacy.
Did people begin to lean
Away as they crowded in,
Or did people feel the need
To imagine empty space
When meanings became discrete?
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