tions that lie under the surface of the visible. It is still, however, indubitably there. ?Today, nature has slipped, perhaps finally, beyond our field of vision. ?We can imitate it in mathematics—we can even produce convincing images of it—but we can never know it. ?We can only know our own creations. "РAs a logical conclusion of this idea, the writer, in the final paragraph of this key chapter we are studying, states, ?"As surely as nature is being swallowed up by the mind, the banks, you might say, are disappearing through their own skylights.РAs for the central theme of this book, the writer says: ?" This book is about the ways culture has changed in the past century, changing the identities of all those born into it. Its metaphor for the effect of change on culture is "disappearance".
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