wave through sediments of ideas: made a conceptual interface of using hand to traverse layers of commentaries on plato’s timaeus, from aristotle, to christian theology, and to today
book = landscape.
the layout of the talmud and chinese classics feels like geological strata - generations of commentary layered around or next to a core text.
tamuld: radial layers
the analects (論語注疏)): different font sizes and columns -> different writers