My first attempts at setting involved pencils and graph paper. My father, a born engineer, has spent his entire life taking things apart in order to figure out how they work. At fourteen, he attached wheels to a push lawnmower and made his own go-cart. At nineteen, he deconstructed and rebuilt an air compressor. When I was four, he built an entire car (The Lolley Trolley) from scratch.
To my father, the world is a collection of systems whose mysteries are one careful disassembly away from being revealed.
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