¶ Restraints (1)
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Restraints:
"I’ve got a way of checking degrees of freedom. I said there is myself and the universe, and I see a hole in the stars. I try to shoot out through the stars. I go llike the Pleiades; the stars get closer and closer together; I seem to be very far. All the stars in the rest of the universe are in one huddle, and I am over here. . . "
"I can’t get away from the universe: one tension restraint. I can do as a tetherball; you hit it and make any kind of a spherical form that you want. . . I give myself now two restraints, I only had one restraint, now I have two restraints, not as if I were a ball in the middle of a music string. I can still move but I can only move in a plane. I give myself a third restraint: I am in a drumhead; I can still move, but only in a line. Then I give myself a fourth restraint and first I am pulling the drumhead in one direction and I seem to be immobilized. . . . I found that even though semi-immobilized, you could put a monkey-wrench on it and it would contort. . .
"I had to get each one of the four restraints; they had to be three-folded and come in tangentially, making a total of 12. There would be six positive and six negative, corresponding
