“I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.”

— Neal Stephenson , book Zodiac

Source: Zodiac (1988), Chapter 9

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