Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
- Emile Auguste Chartier
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A clock just thinks it's right. A cat knows it is. There is no relativity with cats.
The circle is truly the perfect form. And the compass! Such a simple tool--yet also perfect.
--Alcantara
Lovely... ♥ The sphere is the perfect form...
--Ibid.
And the balance?
But the best clock I ever saw was an almost finished wooden (all parts, [gears escapements, pendulums, levers, face, numerals and hands] made of scrap wood off the shop floor) clock a friend made. Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg were heard to play: "After you, Gars-gon" "Non non, after you,Alfonse!" at the gallery opening.
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And the balance?
But the best clock I ever saw was an almost finished wooden (all parts, [gears, escapements, pendulums, levers, face, numerals and hands] made of scrap wood off the shop floor) clock a friend made. Heath Robinson and Rube Goldberg were heard to play: "After you, Gars-gon" "Non non, after you,Alfonse!" at the gallery opening.
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Sorry! That second post was just to correct a comma. But, of course, the moving dactyl digited.
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