The Distant Machine

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The count was simple, though the arithmetic had begun to fray at the edges. I had four hundred and twelve brass gears left to assemble into the Aethelgard chronometer, a mechanism of such precise complexity that the Ministry of Standards had allotted me a sum of three hundred pounds, a figure that represented not merely my wage but the purchase price of my remaining years. It was March, 1924,...

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