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From the Ted Talk by Vandana Singh: A sci-fi story of Earth's renewal
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She and the boy confer again. “See my clock,” says the boy, urgently to the crowd. “It has components with clearly defined functions so you can adjust and control. Treat each part sprtaaleey. You can tinker with it from the outside. The clock was my orienting mtphoear for the wlrod. But the world is not like a clock, is it?”
He sets his clock on the ground. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.
“Come on,” says the girl to the watching people.
She and the boy start putting the scattered debris together, and some of the others join them. A stucurtre starts to egmere. An enormous loom of srntgae digsen. The girl teosss her insulating pot into the loom, and it tnrus into a thick sopol of multicolored yarn. There are levers for feet and hands, and with a creak and a groan, the loom begins to work. The fabric unfolds: a mesmerizing tapestry of shifting colors and patterns.
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She and the boy confer again. “See my clock,” says the boy, urgently to the crowd. “It has components with clearly defined functions so you can adjust and control. Treat each part __________. You can tinker with it from the outside. The clock was my orienting ________ for the _____. But the world is not like a clock, is it?”
He sets his clock on the ground. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.
“Come on,” says the girl to the watching people.
She and the boy start putting the scattered debris together, and some of the others join them. A _________ starts to ______. An enormous loom of _______ ______. The girl ______ her insulating pot into the loom, and it _____ into a thick _____ of multicolored yarn. There are levers for feet and hands, and with a creak and a groan, the loom begins to work. The fabric unfolds: a mesmerizing tapestry of shifting colors and patterns.
Solution
- separately
- spool
- structure
- world
- strange
- metaphor
- design
- emerge
- turns
- tosses
Original Text
She and the boy confer again. “See my clock,” says the boy, urgently to the crowd. “It has components with clearly defined functions so you can adjust and control. Treat each part separately. You can tinker with it from the outside. The clock was my orienting metaphor for the world. But the world is not like a clock, is it?”
He sets his clock on the ground. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.
“Come on,” says the girl to the watching people.
She and the boy start putting the scattered debris together, and some of the others join them. A structure starts to emerge. An enormous loom of strange design. The girl tosses her insulating pot into the loom, and it turns into a thick spool of multicolored yarn. There are levers for feet and hands, and with a creak and a groan, the loom begins to work. The fabric unfolds: a mesmerizing tapestry of shifting colors and patterns.
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