¶ Equilibrium
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Nature abhors an equilibrium as much as she abhors a perfect vacuum or a perfect anything. For instance, when an airplane in flight comes to equilibrium, we call it a stall, and the plane becomes unmanageable and goes swiftly out of equilibrium and into a plunging field of gravity. But I saw that we could approach or employ an almost perfect equilibrium as we employed a crooked line which swiftly approached but never reached the perfect or exact. I saw that a comprehensive structural system would have to involve all the positive and negative tendencies either side of equilibrium. The comprehensive system would have also to involve all the topological pattern components and as a quasi-equilibrium structure would have to be approximately the same length; therefore, all the angulation would have to be in increments of approximately sixty degrees.
