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the fact that clockwork being a thing has led to the widespread association between gears and the concept of time is rather interesting to us
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like you don't think of the element mercury as having any particular relationship to the concept of temperature, but gears go with time
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@Felthry

I always liked the cartoon shorthand for time travel being "tunnel of random clocks" for the same reason. They're just machines, largely arbitrary, but somehow it works.

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