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There is such an obvious link between contingency and sincerity. The future is contingent and to the degree that is true, there is no such thing as destiny - that which was meant to be - until something is actually made.
The advice of the Oracle, as made plain by Sophocles and Shakespeare, is there to misguide the deluded.
Forecasting correctly would result in the correct result but the result is contingent on so many variables that the work of the architect is stymied against attaining perfection. There is a lot of judgment involved to attain a certain precision in the execution of the work.
A long thin pool on a cliff, safely traversed in the security of deep water may provide a unique experience as a facet of being extremely rich.
Sincerity of good intentions is fundamental to avoiding misunderstanding between designer and executor - a factor within the contingency of events that leads to the factual construction of an imagined reality. Handiwork has its own stamp. Michelangelo, for his building works, at least, used other sculptors. Why did they bother with all the stonework if beauty did not matter between one building and the next? It matters less now but then it was a matter of life and death.
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