Imagine being given something like that, when the world you live in is full of bears and wolves and dark forests and muddy tracks and thatched roofs. It must’ve been like one of us getting a personal interstellar spacecraft to play with and park round behind the house.

James Burke (on the arrival of the pocketwatch circa 1450) “Connections”, The Wheel of Fortune episode, 1978

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