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rocked joyously from Tick to Tock, which in his head becamechicken andegg. And it was precisely at the instant when the Divisor had disappeared between his legs, into the center-hole of the escapement, that he'd seen the problem to be insoluble. What had transpired between that moment and the striking of the bell, he had no idea, and his tears, it turned out, were not for smashed lenses, ruined papers, his months of starvation, or his injured head: what difference did any of those make, when the fundamental question of chicken versus egg could not be resolved?
I seized his tapered shoulders. "That's the answer, sir!"
He groaned. "Goat-Boy, Goat-Boy!"
"Thereisn't any problem!" I insisted, shaking him eagerly until the straw fell from his neck."Chicken andegg, tick andtock, Croaker andEierkopf - - they're false distinctions, every one!"
He squinted through his empty spectacle-frames. "You hit your head too?"
But I told him happily that he was better off for the breaking of his lenses and the
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