2 A sequence of adaptive acts

The trace of the tree was there in the position of the four gardens, the space, the location of the buildings, and the crossing of the paths. So the buildings, determined by the special center where the Kiri tree once had stood, were going to be built anyway.
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You see here the trace of a sequence of unfolding and structure-preserving transformations, even under painful circumstances. One thing had led to another. First the tree. Then the garden located. Then the buildings located. Then the tree cut down. Then the paths still oriented, even now, towards the place where once the tree had been.

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