As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special.
The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land.
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.
