om the sponge-like
soil; <U>Stars</U> in manufacturing larger atoms and animating planets
(or at least one planet); <U>Windows</U> in half-admitting the outdoors
into buildings; <U>Rulers, </U>in quantizing the dimensions of objects;
<U>Dolls</U> in preparing children for adult life, as surrogate parents,
and as mirrors enabling kids to look upon themselves or to explore the
worlds of intersubjectivity; <U>Glue</U> as an ersatz nail (at once cheap,
nondestructive, hammer-less, all-size, always-singular, etc