How do you view the world, the cosmos, N(n)ature, G(g)od. Is it some transcendent, intangible oneness? Or is it split at its root, fundamentally antagonistic, frictive? Does it inspire to a unification or tempt to entropy? Are we best served, as the stoic Marcus Aurelius would suggest, by interrupting the chaos, asserting our influence upon our small domain of the universe — as the honeybee does his hive, and the beaver his damn — in a repetition of vane attempts at order?