time passes...
Now the new section is filled and it appears I still have about one third of the pieces to be set out. That's too many for the pluck board, so yesterday I began "edge diving." That is, I am fishing edge pieces out of the bag so that I can get the border connected up and have more space to set out the rest of the pieces. I am resisting the idea of making more surfaces. Limiting size is an important concept when attempting to defeat the Babel Tower.
Of the 200 linear inches that comprise the puzzle boarder I have assembled roughly 30 inches. Yesterday the third corner piece was found
I also have started reading A.S. Byatt's Babel Tower, but not as a manual, as a counter story, as in "Music from Other Towers." I will also re-read Fowles' The Ebony Tower, and other tower tales as well.
There is something very wrong and scary about this whole Tower of Babel myth, and I am going to get to the bottom of it (or the top?), and then by golly, then...