After leaving the church, Georgiana looked at the flat "square."
In fact, judging from photographs, the Pantheon in Ancient Rome was also composed of squares and circles. Although the inside of the temple was circular, the square outline had been added afterward.
Its construction had not gone smoothly. The original dome had indeed been made of concrete, but it was too heavy. Its own weight caused the edges of the dome to spread outward, and it eventually warped and collapsed. Later, the engineers used lighter volcanic lava and reduced the dome's thickness.
From inside the temple, many square recesses could be seen. They were both decorative and meant to reduce weight, leaving the dome at only a quarter of its original weight. To prevent the base of the dome from spreading outward again, seven concrete rings had been added around it, firmly securing the dome.
While translating Hermes's secret text, Plato believed that demiourgos, meaning artisan, was regarded as the second god. The first lesson distinguishing him from the Creator was that, as an "artisan," he had to make materials that were difficult to control to some extent submit to his will. He did not create the world from nothing, but created it by giving it "order."
Wizards likewise followed "order." Food could not be conjured from nothing, and other forms of Transfiguration also made things submit to the caster's will. But that did not mean the caster could transform things however they pleased.
"Turning into nothing" and "turning into everything" were not contradictory, but that was merely a way of understanding, a logic that, like 3+2=5, continued to exist apart from the real world.
Yet when faced with "loss," it was no help at all. People still focused on the hateful side of death. Other than ghosts, no one