...The cut helps to tame the noise of the world by introducing a distinction, which can be understood in its elemental sense as a form, a boundary between inside and outside.  What is inside is further divided and organized as other distinctions flow from this first distinction, exfoliating and expanding, distinction on distinction, until a full-fledged system is in place.  What is outside is left behind, an undifferentiated unity.  Other cuts can be made upon it, of course, generating other systems.  But no matter how many cuts are made there will always be an excess, an area of undifferentiation that can be understood only as the other side of the cut, the outside of the form.