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Literary notes about gyroscope (AI summary)

In literature, the concept of the gyroscope has been employed as a powerful metaphor for circularity and perpetual motion. For example, Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass playfully equates the act of gyrating—"to gyre"—with the continuous, circular motion characteristic of a gyroscope, suggesting both instability and dynamic balance [1]. This usage illuminates the inner workings of rotational movement as a symbol for the unending cycles of change, inviting readers to imagine abstract and multidimensional processes in both the physical and metaphorical sense.
  1. ‘And what’s the “ gyre ” and to “ gimble ”?’ ‘To “ gyre ” is to go round and round like a gyroscope.
    — from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

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