The Distant Machine

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The hand of the turbine shuddered against the brass casing, a violent, arrhythmic spasm that sent a fine mist of machine oil spraying across the mahogany desk where Elias Thorne, fifty-four years old and trembling with the specific exhaustion of a man who has not slept in three days, was attempting to record the final calibration figures. He wiped the grease from his spectacles with the sleeve...

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