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Wind your spring
A spring is what a mechanical watch uses to store energy. There is a lot of interesting engineering involved but at the end of it, the winding of the spring is what builds up the energy that is then used to run the watch. I was reminded of this by a small passage in Norwegian…
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Deus ex machina
I’m nearly done reading Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami and I came across the mention of deus ex machina. I never knew what it meant. “Deus ex machina is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence (Wikipedia). I thought that…
