Weight Machines

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“It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man’s will shall be law to the physical world, and he shall no longer be deterred by such abstractions as time and space, height and depth, weight and hardness, but shall indeed be the lord of creation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.”
—Nicholson Baker (b. 1957)