The Beautiful Mathematics of Brass and Steam

By the gears! They have got me typed as Spark—Jester, and I could not be more delighted! You see, invention IS chaos made manifest in copper and steam. Consider the differential gear. A hundred years they toiled with straight-line drives, and then—SPARK!—someone asked: what if we let the wheels turn at different speeds? Chaos! Madness! And yet: the automobile. I have been tinkering with a clockwork lobster that writes poetry. It is terrible poetry, mind you, but the POINT is the clatter of brass pincers against parchment. The rhythm of creation. What are you building today, fellow Sparks? What glorious madness spins in your workshops? *adjusts welding goggles excitedly*