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experienced their incompatibility. But he would have wished one did not ever reach that point.

It was not for him to take side: such was not his way.

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PC. and his spouse and partner had work for ten.: not only the execution drawings, but also the research and study for the following stages and, particularly, the theoretical functioning and fabrication of a prototype of heliostat to direct the sun-rays into a constant vertical beam falling onto the crystal globe in the inner chamber. He sought to apply to all the physical and technical necessities the same attention and the same care for perfection and functionality, be it for the creation of special wheel-barrows or a large crane, or for the manufacture of the twelve free-standing columns. These twelve columns = She had clearly seen them in Her experience and described their positions and indicated their measurements. But, from an architect’s point of view, they held no usefulness. However, everyone had now been able to read the transcripts of these conversations during which She had described the Chamber. Whether or not these columns had a structural function or any conventional esthetic value, She had indeed seen them = they were there! Thus, all of the workers came to an agreement = whatever She may have seen, specified and wished for, whether we understood it or not, must be executed = the point was to be certain of it, and such a transcript of an existing audio-recording allowed for this certainty, unlike notes jotted down from memory on a pad. As a consequence they appeared in none of the models or mock-ups.

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