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te jīla ja tele jarūsīssīke mo lerōña;
te jecāora sū anxārrāonīki anōmeni anelūri ja la rū masāltanni jasūna jalāka tā jarūsīsse ānen anērrenāe anīlñē;
ē tele jaxiēna ē te jāo mo manahan to anrēli antōrji ankēra cēja ien se anīlñē to anxārrāonīki anōmen jatamōl jatāsa to jārranisse jānnara ja se ānen annāpre honahan wā mo manārmi mamārwi ja se jāonte ānen anānranne anōna to anwēlri tēna jakāxte to jaλāon;
se jīla nīkan jecāora jarūsīsse to anñēīki anxiēni ānen antōmi ānen anīla wā;
se þō ē anāniþa to jasōþa jelūra ē anēnniþa to jeλōna jaλōnōma ē anārriþa to jārranisse jānne ē anālliþa anlāmena to jatamōl ē anānnariwa aneŋŋōta to jawēlre āñ;
ī tele jaxiēna ien se jatāten ñe anrā anēspe mo jañiwēλa jalāmena sū jecāora jajūna to jalāīke jawūxxēta sū jakīnte jāña tā;
se jāo mo jarūsīssīke anxāona to jalāīke þō ien anaŋŋāta wā alxien ien anerēλa tō sū antawōri āñ ñi anrūsīsse tō jelūra janahan sū anxārrāonīki ānen ē antūma ē anλāonīke ē anūra anejēxa ē anñākke wā ilnaren;
That was when I saw the Pendulum.
The sphere, hanging from a long wire set into the ceiling of the choir, swayed back and forth with isochronal majesty.
I knew - but anyone could have sensed it in the magic of that serene breathing - that the period was governed by the square root of the length of the wire and by pi, that number which, however irrational to sublunar minds, through a higher rationality binds the circumference and diameter of all possible circles.
The time it took the sphere to swing from end to end was determined by an arcane conspiracy between the most timeless of measures:
the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature of the root and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself.
I also knew that a magnetic device centred in the floor beneath issued its command to a cylinder hidden in the heart of the sphere, thus assuring continual motion.
This device, far from interfering with the law of the Pendulum, in fact permitted its manifestation, for in a vacuum any object hanging from a weightless and unstretchable wire free of air resistance and friction will oscillate for eternity.
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