Life, like brackets, is about balance. Four walls with a roof don't make a home, but a bed, cupboard, toilet, stove, table, chairs, and bath set up out in the open don't make much of a home either. The internals need the structure just as much as the structure needs the internals.
While the metaphor is correct.
(House(kitchen ( bathroom (bedroom))))
Surely the meaningful part of a house, or lisp, is everything else.
(((()))) Is neither a house nor lisp.
Yes it probably is, but the meaningful part is the nothing that's in there, not the parens surrounding the nothing.
A house isn't just 4 walls. It's where you live, surely that's the important part.
I'll stop getting philosophical with throwaway comments now.