Instead of asking which came first, the chicken or the egg, it 
suddenly seemed that a chicken was an egg’s idea for getting 
more eggs.

     Just before an airplane breaks the sound barrier, sound 
waves become visible on the wings of the plane. The sudden 
visibility of sound just as sound ends is an apt instance of that 
great pattern of being that reveals new and opposite forms 
just as the earlier forms reach their peak performance. 
Mechanization was never so vividly fragmented or sequential as 
in the birth of the movies, the moment that translated us 
beyond mechanism into the world of growth and organic 
interrelation. The movie, by sheer speeding up the mechanical, 
carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the 
world of creative configuration and structure. The message of 
the movie medium is that of transition from lineal connections