[RightWhale]

"who used to spend their days and evenings in the streets playing music on their own instruments and sewing clothing for their neighbours on foot-pedal powered sewing machines",

I assume Gar still uses a manual typewriter and washes his clothes in the creek.

If you have these manually-powered machines, keep them for Y2K things or museums. Gar wouldn't wash his clothes in the actual creek, but would bring up a bucket of water to heat over his clean-burning, non-smoking campfire. And his roast aurochs steak wouldn't smoke, either.

[88keys]

sewing clothing for their neighbours on foot-pedal powered sewing machines"...

Machines?!?! How can this be?

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