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I thought your comment was pretty funny. :-) And I'll happily admit that if there is a single idea here it hasn't congealed for me yet.

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  "I in turn was astonished that he was astonished. Did he suppose I could fix in a couple of hours what two people had done wrong over the course of their entire lives" "Sometimes he runs his hammer along the walls, as though to give the signal to the great waiting machinery of rescue to swing into operation. It will not happen exactly in this way—the rescue will begin in its own time" From what I see, the farmer/captain in question has two hammers (one with a head too big for its handle, and the other with a head too small), and is currently banging them against each other, having yet to start on the wall.