HYLAND
The central theme of geometry underlies the conception
of the entire room, made all the more evident by a smart
black and white diaper-patterned marble floor. "Hello,"
one imagines Molyneux saying, "Enter this room and
ye enter the world of the geometry found in the floor of
the Parthenon. In anticipation, that you, my visitor, shall
enter and ponder the mysteries of this room, I give you
Mr. William Kent's benches from which to contemplate
this conundrum, this internal folly, this heaven on earth."
We should all remember that such pursuits of heavenly
spaces on earth, in the form of follies and hermitages,
often result in spectacular contemplations: one thinks
of St. Jerome and one thinks of a small hermitage
