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Want to sail intuitively? Remove your prop

ged 12, I needed only a lift-off rudder, damp cotton sails and bruised oars to attain a sense of achievement. With these tools I could make physical sense of space and time. I didn’t know it then, but I was involved in reality calculus. Change in wind patterns altered the set of the sails and if I did not trim them, I did not proceed. Change in

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