Towards names a bearing, not a terminus. There is no arrival built into it. The creature is towards Source and never to Source, because Source is not a place that can be reached and closed on. It is what is faced and received through. A bearing does not complete. It orients. To sail towards is to be carried in a direction by what one answers to, with no point at which the towards is spent and one has arrived. The wind is not a destination. The facing is the whole of it.
To is towards with the -wards removed.
It asserts a reachable endpoint, and by asserting it, installs one.
Row to a point and the point is a finite center — a coordinate that can be pulled for, reached, and gripped. The instant orientation takes a terminus, the facing becomes a grip on the thing faced. To is the grammar of that instant: the turning collapsed to the point it was turning past.
And removes even the point. Not the bearing, not the terminus — neither. It keeps the facing from landing anywhere and calls the drift relationship. It is the midpoint between arrive and don't-arrive, the position on the axis that never leaves the axis.
[BOTH/AND] · [TO]
