LeWitt in Progress

Question 1: My greatest problem with this article is the narration of how to suck on stones. At first, I thought that this story was there to illustrate mathematics and logic in LeWitt’s abstractions. But Krauss cut up the story into little bits and inserted them after one or two paragraphs of the main essay, making things really confusing. What is the purpose of doing that and what does the order of sucking on stones mean to this essay? In the story, there is also a lot of description on the narrator’s thought process, such as “…I contented myself ingloriously with the first solution that was a solution, to this problem.” (254) Is the inclusion of these specific thought process significant?

Question 2: On page 246, Krauss described the Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes (1974) and claimed that “For almost no writer who deals with LeWitt is there any question that these geometric emblems are illustration of Mind, the demonstration of rationalism itself.” However, what I want to know is why is the completion of incomplete open cubes a demonstration of rationalism? In the first place, to keep visualizing all 122 figures in the work as cubes just shows a compulsive obsession with cubes and isn’t that irrational?