Concept
juxtaposition
2 writings
- the hiccup is juxtaposition without a nave The hiccup — a vestigial reflex whose referent went extinct 375 million years ago — models juxtapositions that arrive without architectural anticipation, producing percussive disclosure rather than the depth a designed crossing can house.
- the nave is juxtaposition given volume The nave of a church models how poetry converts horizontal throughput into vertical depth: where incommensurable flows cross without merging, the structure must build upward, and depth is generated by juxtaposition rather than added by design.