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The poetry of the language

[...] But it is also possible to put patterns together in such a way that many many patterns overlap in the same physical space; the building is very dense; it has many meanings captured in a small space; and through this density, it becomes profound.

[...] In this place, these two patterns exist in the same space; they are identified; there is a compression of the two, which requires less space, and which is more profound than in a place where they are merely side by side. The compression illuminates each of the patterns, sheds light on its meaning;

[...] To some degree, there is compression in every single word we utter, just because each word carries the whisper of the meanings of the words it is connected to. [p. xli-xliii]

A Pattern Language
C. Alexander, S. Ishikawa, M. Silverstein

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2008.03.17 -0500

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