Things began to make sense when I was five. It all started with the erector set. It was logical. Reliable. Nothing else was. Hardware was easy to understand. People were different. They were unpredictable. One minute everything would be fine, the next it’d be all different. But when people disappoint insert tab ‘A’ into slot ‘b’ would never let you down. […] Order was hard to come by so I had to make my own. And the things I wanted to be, but couldn’t — the things I built could be.
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| — | Invincible Iron Man n. 286 (via my-undying-regard) |
