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The story is epistolary in nature, taking the form of a scientist's journal entry. The scientist is a member of a race of air-driven mechanical beings. The race obtains air from swappable lungs filled with pressurized air (argon) from underground. When it is realized that a number of clocks simultaneously appear to be running fast but they do not appear to be malfunctioning, the narrator decides to explore the explanation that people's brains are computing slower. The scientist dissects their own brain and discovers that it operates based on the movement of air through gold leaves. The scientist hypothesizes that others' brains are computing slower because rising atmospheric pressure causes air to pass through the leaves at a slower rate, and that the subterranean supply of argon will eventually be depleted, equalizing the pressure between the two atmospheres.
Flawless means without faults
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He Goes to Bars Because he was upset
<span>The most obvious way to explain this metaphor is to say that envy breeds treachery and butterflies breed caterpillars. When one is envious of something, one sees the beauty in it, just as one sees a butterfly and remarks at its beauty. But when one acts on that envy and attempts to take whatever they are envious of or do something about it, they get a hairy caterpillar: treachery. The main character in this story threatens to tell his parents of his sister eating pork. He doesn't actually do it until his father gives the three children notebooks. Then the main character sees his sister with two blotters and gets jealous. He envies her and those two blotters. So then, he tells his parents, an act of treachery, thinking that he will continue to see the beautiful butterfly envy has shown him. Instead, his envy breeds treachery. He is shown a hairy caterpillar, bred of the beautiful butterfly of envy.</span>
