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is a flying fountain of all the rivers of earth, an armed and thundering legion, that beats down the forests with hail and buries the mountains in snow, and floods the plains with water.

always heavier than the air. And yet these flying fountains of all the rivers of earth, these armed and thundering legions of the storm, that beat down the forests with hail and bury the mountains in snow, and flood the plains with water, go floating over us at vast heights with all their mighty magazines when all our philosophy would require them to sink to the earth.

is that upon which God has written the transitoriness of all earthly things, which charm for a time and disappoint in the end.

is suggestive of conflict and change, describing as it does the path of the tornado and the falling leaf.

well aware of the natural and physical scientific significance of the spiral form and also its classical and cultural references, from Archimedes' screw to the walls of Breughel's Tower of Babel, and from seashells to Escher's disorientating repetitions. For him, the spiral form both eases the savagery of the perpendicular and introduces new and centrifugal forces. The spiral brings with it a necessity for conflict and change in a way that the perpendicular does not. It describes the path of the tornado and the falling leaf.

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