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Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/isbn_9780395602843  \nFor John Taft Ingalls  \nTwo fishes swimming in the sea,Two birds flying in the air,Two chisels on an anvil-maybe.  \nBeaten,hammered,laughing blue steel to each other-maybe.Sure I would rather be a chisel with youthan a fish.Sure I would rather be a chisel with youthan a bird.Take these two chisel pals,OGod.Take and beat'em,hammer'em,hear'em laugh.\"Laughing Blue Steel\"by Carl Sandburg  \n# MOVING HEAVY\n\n# THINGS\n\nWritten and Illustrated byJAN ADKINS  \nCopyright O 1980 by Jan Adkins.Alihs rered.No partof his work may be epodcedor tnmited in an frm by any mens,elecronie r mechanicsl nelodinghotocopyingn recodng  \nor by any information storage or retrieval system,without permission in writing from the publisher.Printed in the United States ofAmerca.ISBN:0-395-29206-9 Lib.of C.CardNo.80-464 PAP ISBN0-395-60284-x  \nRNF BP PB SEM 10987654  \n# BEGINNINGS\n\nAn ant.There is one here,twiddling mindlesslyacross my desk,carrying a crumb of enormousproportions.It is a crumb of whole wheat bread frommy sandwich and I hope he enjoys it,but it is biggerthan the ant by three or four times.  \nA powerful creature.IfI were as strong as the ant,proportionally,I could throw grand pianos,carrydrums of oil in either hand,lift cars out of theirparkingspaces,uproot respectable trees,and pick upbetween 1500 and 2000 pounds of whole wheatbread.I would beacomicbookherowho didn't needa car jack,a fork lift,or a moving van.  \nNone of us is as strong as the ant,nor do we needto be.It's possible for most of us to live out our liveswithout lifting anything heavier than the Sundaypaper.We come to identify weight with motors andmachinery:if there is a heavy thing to be moved,amachine is called in;its motor bawls,its cylindershiss,its wheels squeal,and the thing is moved.  \nSimple,fast,and complete,and that's the waythings are.  \nThere was a time when things weren't moved inthat way.It was not so long ago,half a hundredyears,just before engines came tobesmall and cheapand everywhere.Most older folks remember how itwas.It was a time when elm logs were burned andbored out to make water conduit,and if you couldstep back in time to suggest that they use cast ironpipe they would laugh at you,and be right to laugh:\"Listen here,Basil,fellow here says we ought to usewater pipe cast in...what?Iron?Iron,Basil.Yup,that's what he says.Maintains that some poorjasperought to mine the ore,then it gets shipped to thesmelterand cast into pigs,the pigs get to the foundrysomehow and get reheated and cast into pipe.Thenthe railroad brings those big pipes to the depot andyou and I'd have to manhandle them into place.Think of the human labor,all the fuel,shipand railand horse transport as against you and me cuttingelm down the road and shaping it up and boring itand laying it right here and it lasts just as long,elm  \ndoes,maybe longer.Why,that's just foolish.Whatabout that,Basil?”  \nIt may be that your life has a few heavy things init.You may be more than a match for the SundayTimes,but,if you have occasions for moving on amore formidable scale,you could yell for a fork liftand throw in the towel,or you could be stubbornand prideful.Machines,or the oil they burn,couldgo against your grain,or you might have a practicalturn of mind like Wallace and Basil when theyreason that elm eonduit is simpler and more directthan cast iron.It may seem to you that moving aheavy thing with some application of leverage or  \nguile can be set up and accomplished before themachines would arrive,without theexpense ofoilordollars.It may suit your pride or your parsimony oryour humor,or it may suit that rare sense ofrightnessthat comes when you use just enough hammer forthe nail,salt for the soup,charcoal for the steak,orstring for the package...and no more.  \nPrompted by vanity,necessity,or convenience,your intention of moving some weighty mass 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