The fundamental distinction on which abstract form is based is a difference of vowels. This is a basic opposition - but less than an opposition - on which are built the constitutive differences that make a world. The vowel difference is varied in a myriad of ways and gathers up, like a hair-ball, all the later, primitive seeming, meanings and discursive distinctions. It also coexists with these and forms a part of the glue of the world. Everything is thus capable of joining in the original dance, the two vowel sounds, the basic motions, the founding cut, the sides not threatening each other but very close together, striving against themselves to be rejoined.