ABSTRACT
The seductive power exerted by the woman's shoe contains an element of contradiction, since it combines the height of refinement with the experience of 'earthbound' contact accepted without discomfiture. Natural openings — caves in the rock, volcanic craters, the orifices of the human body — have all the mystery of routes leading to the obscure forces of the being. The smooth surface of the button is touched by the dying glow of sunset, but this is destined ineluctably to slide downwards over its slight convexity, towards the raised edge where a wing of shadow lies in wait, ready to swallow it up. Only the exterior of the truncated cone is visible, and only the interior of the truncated cylinder, except at one point, namely, where the truncated cone opens up in the middle as a result of the removal of an angular cross-section, allowing us to glimpse the exterior of the truncated cylinder within it.
