Lenny: I’ll examine you with my greatest attention and measured you very precisely.[1] Put yourself in position.[2]
House: How should I pose for you?
Lenny: First you need to liberate yourself from the original objects of love.[3] Then you need to give up your control, so that the forces run on their own.[4] Now it belongs to my wisdom to arrange you in due manner and order.[5]
House: I know that you have trust in me, so I will trust you.[6] But please make sure that no parts are lost at the end.
Lenny: There is an end to nothing; all things are connected in a sort of circle; if they flee, then I will pursue them.[7] I will only change your form with the same mass of values.[8] You are in safe hands.
Lenny: In your limited surface I cannot get the sublimity of extent, but we may have the beauty of peace, and the majesty of depth.[9] I like the asymmetric motion of your white facade with the regularly placed openings. That you contrast it with a classical symmetry in your spaces testifies to style. I sense that you strive for a profound and eternal stillness.[10] We will work with that.
House: You already told me this last week. You know I see myself and explore myself right into my inwards; I know what pertains to me.[11] We must go farther and become crazier.[12]
Lenny: As you wish, I hope you are you ready and longing to affront dangers and difficulties? [13]
House: All parts are ready for the start.[18]
Lenny: First we will mark out the body. After that, we will continue to add existing parts, cut them to size and extend them with new ones.
House: But we already did this, can’t you come up with a more radical change?
Lenny: Yes I can arrange this. We should change your pattern in its form, but not in its direction.[14] The result is a pattern of stripes with fine lines. Your world is made of straight lines, but we use curves now.[15] The only change here lies in the shift of our perspective.[16]
House: So we not only adjust my form but also my perspective?
Lenny: Yes, we will use the same parts, but we will assemble and look at them differently. In a continuously revolving circle, every point is simultaneously a point of departure and point of return. [8] This rotary movement, in which the linear progress of time is suspended in a repetitive loop, is our drive at its most elementary.[16]
[1] Le Roy, The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of Greece. .
[2] Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology. .
[3] Klein, The Psychoanalysis of Children. .
[4] Bunz, Symptoms of the Planetary Condition. .
[5] Aquinas, Summa Theologica. .
[6] Michelet, The History of France Vol 2. .
[7] Seneca, Complete Works. .
[8] Marx, Collected Works. .
[9] Ruskin, The stones of Venice. .
[10] Gartman, From Autos to Architecture Fordism and Architectur. .
[11] de Montaigne, The complete essays. .
[12] Burrows, Fictioning. .
[13] The Book of the Thousand and One Nights Supplementary Nights
[14] Ackroyd, London A Biography. .
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