Contents
List of illustrations vii
Preface viii
PART I Knotting 1
1 Line and blob 3
2 Octopuses and anemones 9
3 A world without objects 13
4 Materials, gesture, sense and sentiment 18
5 Of knots and joints 22
6 Wall 27
7 The mountain and the skyscraper 32
8 Ground 37
9 Surface 41
10 Knowledge 46
PART II Weathering 51
11 Whirlwind 53
12 Footprints along the path 60
13 Wind-walking 64
14 Weather-world 69
15 Atmosphere 73
16 Ballooning in smooth space 79
17 Coiling over 84
18 Under the sky 89
19 Seeing with sunbeams 94
20 Line and colour 101
21 Line and sound 106
PART III Humaning
22 To human is a verb 113
23 Anthropogenesis 115
24 Doing, undergoing 120
25 The maze and the labyrinth 130
26 Education and attention 134
27 Submission leads, mastery follows 138
28 A life 143
29 In-between 147
30 The correspondence of lines 154
References 159
Index 166