Amateur science is a green magic. It moss-covers categories and filches meaning from the underground. It is done without a degree, without recognition, without the partition of power into infinite reams of burnable paper. A cheapening of common knowledge is caused by exactness, by the infinitely small and big increments of measurement. Amateurs know the world is round but know also that it might be hollow; that people die but could become zombies; that mechanically kept time can be manipulated into time machines; and that ships can be built in bottles, despite the remarkable difference in size.
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