She goes to the boxes and picks up a double handful of small rounded stones in a lovely mix of blue, green, and purple. These she arranges in a wide circle on the floor, dragging the chairs out of the way so that they face each other across the circle, one by the window and the other by the door. In the very center of all this, she places a glossy black rook with a minimalist design. Then she sits in one of the chairs and gestures Promise into the other.
"I'm going to see if I can make the patterns even more orderly and geometric than they already are," she explains. "I'm hoping for the space inside that circle to achieve perfect twenty-four-point radial symmetry; I'm not sure what the space outside the circle will do, but I guess we'll find out."
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She goes to the boxes and picks up a double handful of small rounded stones in a lovely mix of blue, green, and purple. These she arranges in a wide circle on the floor, dragging the chairs out of the way so that they face each other across the circle, one by the window and the other by the door. In the very center of all this, she places a glossy black rook with a minimalist design. Then she sits in one of the chairs and gestures Promise into the other.
"I'm going to see if I can make the patterns even more orderly and geometric than they already are," she explains. "I'm hoping for the space inside that circle to achieve perfect twenty-four-point radial symmetry; I'm not sure what the space outside the circle will do, but I guess we'll find out."