Wheels (Relativity)


By Shawn Scheer
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Time... There's never enough.
So I got this wheel. It goes. It rolls on 4 rubber wheels that protect four steel rims to keep the wheels from going square and wonky.
I take the wheel and I flatten it. I make brake calipers. I quarter the wheel and stack it high and coarse it up to make brakes for the wheel(s).
Then I take out my rolling pin and I roll out the wheel to make axels and struts and other things that turn in time. I take the wheel and make a drive shaft and connect to a bunch of wheels I cut chunks out of to make gears. They pump in time.
I make tubes like I make struts with wheels. I add fluids that flow in time and experience entropy like every whispered moment of my own existence. They go to pistons which are thick solid wheels with noodled wheels with wide open passthrough wheels for other noodled wheels bent but still wheels as they turn in time. The valves work the same way.
Gas and air make combustion. From inert, to fire; a cycle a wheel. Newtonian physics of propulsion - cause and effect, effect and cause with no arrow of time, just a snake eating its tail in recursion.
I sit in the car and adjust the little wheels inside, all the little dials to make me smile. The radio plays a little CCR "Proud Mary". Big wheels keep on truning indeed.
I hold the steering wheel and look at the clock. Whatever it reads, I know I'm late.... but I'm behind the wheel, I can make up time. Afterall, the clock is just another wheel.
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wheels within wheels,
wheels within wheels, circularity and entropy and Newtonian physics and Dirac's equations...
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Shawn, can you please edit
Shawn, can you please edit the summary? It appears on our front page so needs to be U rated. This doesn't mean editing your actual writing, just the summary which defaults to the first few words. You could put a full stop to make it blank, or anything you like so long as it's U rated. Thanks
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Hi Shawn - thank you for the
Hi Shawn - thank you for the compliment about ABCTales. We had the debate about AI use on the site and the result was overwhelmingly in favour of a total ban, so that's what we have, and hopefully long may it last!
About the first word: you don't need to remove it from your actual piece - I thought it was effective too, please put it back. All you need to do is remove it from the summary which appears on our front page. Just go into 'edit', then select 'edit summary' and then put something which doesn't have the word fucking in it. Then go back to your actual body of work and add it back in there. Then click on save and hopefully bob will be your uncle. You chosen rating is fine for what you wrote, but our front page is U rated. I hope that makes sense?
I hope you will leave a smaller gap between visits next time!
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