He was a man who was always dissatisfied, who seemed to worry too much unnecessarily, and always found a sadistic pleasure in belittling her because she hadn't brought a lumpsome dowry.

The other half of that dynamic involves the universe as relational matrix, as finite bordered relative existence, being penetrated by whatever it is that it exists in relation to, which, again, in this case is infinite borderless absolute existence. That is, as the universe expands into the surrounding nonuniverse, that surrounding nonuniverse must also be expanding into the universe.

As Boyce wrote: I could sense that there was some expectation that [the Opening Ceremony] would put a pin in the national identity, that we would have to decide — is Britain rural or urban, ancient or modern, riot or clean-up, roundhead or cavalier, multi-cultural or divided?

Love thy neighbor, sayeth the Lord.