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| and it follows that the format of the tea garden provides the warranted symbol [meta layer] of the symbol [process layer] : josiah conder describes the 'Cha-niwa', gardens comprising the path of approach to the tea room : his description implies familiar paradoxical charateristics of the garden, which entails the path through which a visitor to the tea house passes in order to prepare for the ritual : p147 'Most Tea Gardens are remarkable for extreme simplicity combined with an affectation of natural wildness' [humility, confidence] : also: tea gardens 'may be said to assume an air of respectable poverty and decay, accompanied by the most punctilious cleanliness.' : and so the process path represented by the garden is at once a scene of 'decay' and 'cleanliness', only contradictory on the surface : in the sense that 'decay' is the process of time : take, for example, the decay that results in fermentation, of grain or rice whose result is alchohol which has properties resulting in sterilization, and so indeed with time [theta], decay and cleanliness are congruous : it is notable that, in this case, time [theta] is the hidden variable which solves the paradox between decay and cleanliness : |
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