The Shape of Things

Metaphoric Geometry

A funnel, not a fence

A scene from a story. Illustration, not evidence. Nothing in it is a finding. What it stands in for, and what it does not establish, is set out below.

The line he was drawing was not a fence. It was a funnel, and it was pointed at two people who did not know they were being aimed, and who thought they had found an unguarded house.

From The Warden: Chapter 10.