If it is to be believed that the world was created by the parting of heaven J_ and land, then space which we call insular was created by the parting of the island and land. Insular space stretches in a horizontal parallelogram. Still, when a vertical parallelogram is attached to it or wedged in it. with insufficiently separated heaven and earth, sketched with adhesions and symbioses, then we obtain spa-tium which is both spiritual and real, vertical and horizontal, sea-flat and mountain-high.