as consumers. Architecture and sculpture dried up too. In 
literature only people from backward oral areas had any 
resonance to inject into the language—the Yeats, the Synges, 
the Joyces, Faulkners, and Dylan Thomases. These themes are 
linked in the following paragraph by Le Corbusier, which makes 
plain why stone and water are inseparable:

     Around the building, inside the building, there are definite 
     places, mathematical points, which integrate the whole 
     and establish platforms from which the sound of speech 
     would reverberate in all parts. These are the predestined 
     sites for sculpture. And that sculpture would be neither a 
     metope, a tympanum, nor a porch. It would be much 
     more subtle and precise. The site would be a place which 
     would be like the focus of a parabola or an ellipse, like the 
     precise point of intersection of the different planes which