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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