The left hemisphere veers unstably between two unrealistic positions in what it sees as an opposition: either all is fixed or all must be formless flux. The right hemisphere, on the other hand, is capable of seeing that while nothing is fixed over long enough stretches of time, this does not mean that chaos ensues. There is identity over time. The mountain is flowing, yes – always flowing; but equally importantly it does so so slowly that from day to day, from millennium, even, to millennium, we can depend on its massive presence: ‘The mountain sceal stand fast upon the green earth’.
