When the Ice Age ended in the Near East gardens were grown
and hoed into deliberate rows: a clever scheme for entraining
human minds to think in straight lines. "Hoe culture" led to an
architecture of straight columns, corners and plums in the ice
box cold and sweet, on the cusp of looking around.

History is not straight: one day tugs at another, another un-
ravels, another stops, turns around. There is no reason but
the illusion of thinking ahead in the mind's looping orbits.