quarters

I love quarters.  Quarters are cute and always useful.  They cannot be shredded and are terrifically difficult to fragment.  I tend to stack quarters one-on-top-of-the-other, but I know they're purpose is to be four together as one. 

What am I talking about?

I am referring to more than just currency for clean laundry.  I am talking about how quarters are used for abstracting things.  Things, being not subjects but rather objects, are residual artifacts from the formless.  Quarters have form and substance.  As such, they are formed matters, and I wouldn't have them any other way.

We each have quarters to ourselves.  Other than simple pocket change, I am a quarter; we are a quarter; it is a quarter; its perspective is not whole, it’s quartered.  Those are pronoun quarters whereas these metallic discs I feed the washing machine are quarter dollars.  The distinction I am making here is semantic.  Nevertheless, it is a very real distinction between content and expression.  The expression ‘I am a quarter’ indicates my contents.  However, without a correlating expression, it is meaningless.  For instance, if I say “I am a quarter.  Quarters are cute,” then I am saying I am cute.  That is meaningful because I am something and those things are something else.  It is the relative nature of the two statements which gives meaning to what I have to say.

Quarters are constituted by one with capital.  The type of quarter and its value are entangled in the distinction made by the one and then another.  This is not tangled laundry; this is what is called a double articulation.  First, content is formulated in a quarter and substantiated as a quarter, and secondly, this is balanced by corresponding quarters of expression—formulating and substantiating the other half to make a whole.