#511 La Gravitation Universelle

The wall is artifice, is illusion,
a masque to keep the forest
at bay — at least it seems that 
way until the hunter gets his 
arm stuck in it & Newton's

law of universal gravitation
kicks in. Or, equally, kicks
out. Allegorically, this could be
a depiction of the "first great 
unification," a realization of

the attraction of particles. Or,
if you're so inclined, another 
allegory, where Isaac Newton
is the hunter, presenting the 1st
Book of his Principia to the 

Royal Society, & Robert Hooke 
is represented by the wall, ac-
cusing Newton of plagiarism 
&, as punishment for the theft, 
attempting to take his hand off.