R. Kowalski took a look upon his great machinery, a marvel of clockwork. Boulders were moved from place to place by giant spoon-shaped monjolo movers carrying them from propositions to propositions, until the boulder rolled to the great abyss below...
Occasionally, a bug, the famed giant beetles, got stuck in a piece of the system, that then required maintenance, but the great engineer persisted.
In the abyss, a specter lurked.