/lit/ - Literature

>The slow round of the engraver’s lathe gains but the breadth of a hair, but the difference is distributed back over the whole curve, never an instant true,—ever not quite.

What the hell does this mean, literally? What does it mean for the round of a lathe to gain the breath of a hair? What does it gain? And how is this thing that was gained being distributed back over the whole curve? What does "back over the whole curve" mean? And why "never an instant true"? This quote makes me think of asymptotes in mathematics, but it's being expressed in such an odd and infuriating way that I can't really understand anything.

>>10903571
>(re-loo re-loo)

>>10839099
jesus christ

>There's more to life than depression

>>9643563
go fuck yourself

>Its been two weeks since I've read a book /lit/
>I feel like shit