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This page presents natural forms as already symbolic, where crater, branch, violet, and the tree of life turn the landscape into a living sacred image.

The recurring move is from physical object to metaphysical sign. Trees become the tree of life, the crater releases color without violence, and even a naked branch is treated as a painting of the gods. The closing lines bring the foreign observer back in, but only as someone who sees himself reflected through work inside a world whose meanings are older than he is.

Frame-script page 5 turns every natural form into a sign. 'All trees are / the tree of / Life,' 'The crater now / allows a stream / of violet with / out violence,' and 'All twist of naked / branch is the / painting of / the gods.' The closing cue brings the human observer back in - 'Under Gloe, / foreign man has / reflected him- / self through his / work on earth' - placing the outsider inside a world whose meanings precede him. The wordplay of 'violet with / out violence' shows the script reaching for sound as much as image, color standing in for peace.