Wednesday, April 29, 2009

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meant clockwork to power my flying machine. But it won't work.'
'Oh.'
'There's a limit to the power of a spring, no matter how tightly one winds it.'
'Oh, yes. Yes. places. Their silicon brains were used to operating at low temperatures. But down on the muggy plains the heat build-up slowed them down and made them dull. It wasn't that only stupid trolls came down to the city. Trolls who decided to come down to And you hope that if you wind a spring one way, all its energies will unwind the other way. And sometimes you have to wind the spring as tight as it will go,' said Vetinari, 'and pray it doesn't break.'His expression changed.'Oh dear,' he said.'Pardon?' said Leonard.'He didn't thump the wall. I may have gone too far.' Detritus sat and steamed. Now he felt hungry – not for food, but for things to think about. As the temperature sank, the efficiency of his brain increased even more. It needed something to do.He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up and marched past his brain in terrified obedience. Division and multiplication were discovered. Algebra was invented and provided an interesting diversion for a minute or two. And then he felt the fog of numbers drift away, and looked up and saw the sparkling, distant mountains of calculus.Trolls evolved in high, rocky and above all in cold

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