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i was reading these conversations about the japanese embassy in rome and the younglings are reporting to (redacted) about the wonders of europe and they are like in this palace there was a beautiful garden with several fountains decorated with moving statues and the lord says statues don't move and the younglings go on the water makes the statues move in a way that one plays a flute and one seems to dance and one— and the lord is like statues are very much still that's kinda their thing what are you talking about and the boys say it's that wonderful thing the portuguese showed us (a mechanical clock) but with water but let's move on and the lord is like methiks you're talking shit