The Interactions of Society
Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice" , also enacted in various movie versions - the 1940 version with Laurence Olivier being a classic - is full of geometry.
Like the frequent dances which bring different families and groups together, dancers are paired off with diagonally opposite partners, then break loose to join those next to them, and travel down lines with yet another. Partners weave in and out of lines, circles, and squares to complete the dance.
Conversation may start with your initial partner, but may end with another paired with much later. The music prompts you when to start, stop and change directions. And change patterns.
Finally, at the very end, like a lovely carpet, all the patterns settle in perfect harmony and geometry. Everyone, and everything, is just where they belong.
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