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Literally and metaphorically, a woman is one who sits at the loom and weaves. She deals in connections. She builds the social fabric from the ground up. She is the binder and mediator, the liminal and in-between. Without her, life is impossible, because without her, opposites never meet. She is self-other, while man is thing-in-itself.

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Western civilisation is no longer capable of sincere, tasteful ornamentation. We are rather strung between two extremes: the bland and unadorned, or the ersatz and gaudy.

Compare the two buildings at the University of Sydney: on the left, the magnificent and masterfully adorned sandstone Quadrangle, built 1813; on the right, the recently …