A Point of No Return
Period! Language has made up its own mind. It has declared that the rudiments of truth can not be geometrically applied. In vain this area is investigated only to be counterpointed by the universal rubric of shame; that the trials of logical progression can not carry the milieu by the circumstance that it is not bloody obvious. Naturally there is circumstantial evidence of developments between music and architecture, but this is tainted by ‘style’ that defines a variety of camps at loggerheads with the issue of the point. It is as though the concept of human development is being challenged as the idea requires the right sort of author; that the intent is militant because change can not be catered for obsequiously. Period!
Guarino Guarini, from Architettura civile, Tractate 4, Lastra 4, Figures 4–5: Guarini explains the method for projecting a semicircle onto a cone, 1737.
