• tetris11@feddit.uk
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    19 hours ago

    Life and Death. Yin and Yang. Who are we to scrape the sky as we scrape the sewers. Is one brick not only as strong as the one next to it?

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      12 hours ago

      Is one brick not only as strong as the one next to it?

      Obviously not, you can break one brick in a wall without taking the whole wall down.

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        11 hours ago

        Aha! But a brick is only as strong as its bonds to its neighboring bricks, and it is inevitable that if one brick falls, so shall the others. So sayeth the almighty brick!