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By Nachiket Joshi There are distances that seem vast, when gazed upon from the edge of a ticking hand. The hand lurches and drops, then pauses, before dropping again. It is a hostage to rotating gears, swirling bands, it’s putting a brave face to a tightly bound apparatus. Its motions mock the stars. In a small town, not far from the coast, astrologers march up and down in fury at the king’s new acquisition- a new-fangled toy, offered up by the arrogant and duplicitous pale-faced mercenaries. Lin…