AbstractConcreteWorks.com is a very long domain name (when I registered it you couldn't get a longer one), and I tried for nearly a year to stop thinking of it, but it kept popping back into my head, so finally I gave in and registered it.

Abstract Concrete Works.  Parse it:  Is "Abstract" a noun, a verb, or an adjective?  Yes--all three.  Is "Concrete" a noun?  Yes.  (But it may also be a verb.  Or an adjective.)  And "Works"--is it a noun or a verb?  Uh-huh.  Put them all back together again and you have--well, you can't just state it in a simple declarative sentence.

Whatever Abstract Concrete Works is, it does appear at first to be self-contradictory.  But I don't think it's an oxymoron.  It's more an enactment of "synergy" and something like what Bucky Fuller had in mind with his term "dymaxion."   Here's  a definition of sorts.   (By the way, Fuller once declared, "I seem to be a verb."  I won't trouble you with a parsing of that--what "seem" means, and all, which would have to include an explication of what Hamlet says to his mommie:  "Seem, lady, nay, I know not seem," and why.)

Does that help?  Just put it all into the right side of your brain, let it go for a while, and then see what oozes over to the left side, where the language stuff is.

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