...the grid is a spatial apparatus that consolidates appropriation and subdivision into a permanent system through which many sedentary societies impose their order on the land. Yet the grid also translates appropriation and subdivision into the abstraction of measurement, through which land becomes a quantifiable item. As a social force, abstraction is therefore the mechanism that transforms the grid from an order first traced on the ground to an apparatus whose ordering impact invests in and orients the totality of human relationships.

etymology accident (n.): late 14c., “an occurrence, incident, event that comes by chance,"

Sire, only opera can do this. In a play if more than one person speaks at the same time, it's just noise, no one can understand a word. But with opera, with music, with music you can have twenty individuals all talking at the same time, and it's not noise, it's a perfect harmony!

...brilliant, mobile, superficial neutrality (...) an outer hyperspace, with no origin, no reference points (...) a centrifugal Metropolis