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The cogwheels are in gear.

Leonardo was a man who, according to one biographer, "was plunged into a kind of ecstasy by devising never-ending systems of cogwheels and screws"--rather like Buckminster Fuller deliriously multiplying geodesics.

The concentrated activity which had begun at the Emperor's headquarters in the morning and had started the whole movement that followed was like the first movement of the main wheel of a large tower clock.


One wheel slowly moved, another was set in motion, and a third, and wheels began to revolve faster and faster, levers and cogwheels to work, chimes to play, figures to pop out, and the hands to advance with regular motion as a result of all that activity.


Peter Petrovich Konovnitsyn, like Dokhturov, seems to have been included merely for propriety's sake in the list of the so-called heroes of 1812-the Barclays, Raevskis, Ermolovs, Platovs, and Miloradoviches.


Like Dokhturov he had the reputation of being a man of very limited capacity and information, and like Dokhturov he never made plans of battle but was always found where the situation was most difficult.


Since his appointment as general on duty he had always slept with his door open, giving orders that every messenger should be allowed to wake him up.


In battle he was always under fire, so that Kutuzov reproved him for it and feared to send him to the front, and like Dokhturov he was one of those unnoticed cogwheels that, without clatter or noise, constitute the most essential part of the machine.



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