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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