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some necessary explanations, of a literary type: it is rather known that literature is nothing but a way of "talking about something else", so at least H.Melville claimed, followed and preceded in this by Hawthorne and Balzac. Discursive thought is condemned to proceed by opposition: it thus projects a system (grid) of antithesis onto reality. Between the opposites we distinguish three types:

1-The opposites, which stand at the extremes of the same kind of things, like the two propositions "everything is true" - "everything is false". Their main characteristic is that they deny each other, and that they can both be false (given avarice and prodigality there are those who do not fall into either of them).

2- The subcontrary, are attenuated opposites, as in the parsimonious / generous antithesis, with respect to prodigal / miser. Subcontrary can meet halfway: those who spend the right touch thrift on one side and generosity on the other.

3-The contradictors instead impose an "aut aut": if one is true the other is false and vice versa.

Incidentally, the famous garden belongs to no one except to the Lord; the trees contained therein are 9, but man can only know 7 of them, in fact two are buried in a sturdy jar, they always bloom and no one can see them or know anything : in fact they do not exist. On the lintel that leads to the entrance of the Garden, an engraving warns "Diameter Spherae, Thau Circuli, Crux orbis, non orbis prosunt" (the diameter of the sphere, the tau of the circle and the cross of the orbit do not help the blind).

A finely engraved slab instead shows the following instructions: