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Brief thoughts on exactness.

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Fish move exactly
there and exactly then,

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just as birds have their
in-built exact measure

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of time and place.

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But mankind,
deprived of instinct,

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is aided by a scientific
research, the essence

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of which this story shows.

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A certain soldier had to
fire a gun every evening

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exactly at 6:00.

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He did it like a soldier.

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When his exactness
was checked, he

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stated, "I follow an
absolutely precise chronometer

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in the shop window of
the clockmaker downtown.

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Every day at 17:45,
I set my watch by it

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and proceed up the hill
where the gun stands ready.

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At 17:59 exactly,
I ready the gun.

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And exactly at 18:00
hours, I fire."

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It was found that this method
of firing was absolutely exact.

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There was only the
chronometer to be checked.

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The clockmaker downtown was
asked about its exactness.

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"Oh," said the clockmaker,
"this instrument

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is one of the most exact.

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Imagine, for years a
gun has been fired here

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at 6:00 exactly.

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And every day I look
at the chronometer

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and always it shows
exactly 6:00."

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[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]

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So much for exactness.

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[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]

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And the fish move in the
waters and the heavens

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are filled with
the murmur of wings

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while the chronometers
tick and guns thunder.

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