MS: Ruins are entropic forms, returning to raw materiality, background noise. Entropy is the natural condition of things, a metabolic process. We work to form structures, meanings, buildings, and artifacts, inhabit and communicate, consume and sustain, while wear and tear eventually take over, and we discard what is no longer needed.
Even the inscription in granite cannot sustain itself indefinitely. All buildings, as sand castles on the beach drying in the sun and washed by the waves, will always return to particle components. The buildings, as words, of Nobson, become ruins, ultimately completely mysterious.
Between inhabitation and complete ruin is a hylographic state, where we might still live, making do, repairing as best we might, still able to read the letters, words, signs around us, until eventually it is just too much work and we let go, perhaps even admiring the aesthetic form of what is left, testament to what was. This state of being is a sublime one.
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