The building arches above, visible through and between the abutting circles, which veil the sky beyond.
A meme -- the word rhymes with "scheme" and invokes the French word for same (même) along with words like "memory" -- can be, in Mr. Dawkins's words, "tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or building arches".
Examples of memes include tunes, idea, catchphrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches: "Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation".
Dawkins gives a list of some exemplary memes: 'tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.' Note that while it is sometimes assumed that all memes are ideas (and vice versa) Dawkins's list includes other types of thing, such as ways of making pots, which are techniques.
But keeping all models available as working hypotheses might have promoted critical distinctions: consider using a catenary for building arches, but don't patiently wait for a water fountain to assume the shape of a catenary.
Half of these are standardised in the Belyayevo mould, but the other half are mid-rise buildings arching around artificial hills and valleys, connected by glazed skyways.
In that performance, while sewing a line on a ribbon, I also sewed on about 25 helium balloon strings, the balloons lifting the line among the audience and building an arch, growing from my location to the door.
For example, on p. 8, Dennett has an excellent discussion in "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" (Simon & Schuster, 1995) of the production of apparently irreducibly complex phenomena through simplification of an even more complex system, e.g. building an arch by taking away stones from a pile of rubble.
A blue, three-story concrete building with arches and balconies, the place caters mainly to Somalis visiting from abroad.
And they perform minor orthopedic repairs, building up arches, heels or entire soles for people whose legs are two different lengths, a common problem after hip replacement surgery.
