I recently became so frustrated with all the cables littering my office I decided I would sort through them and remove all the unnecessary ones. "Cables are like a bunch of keys", I reasoned. "Over time, we accumulate more and more of them because we are afraid to remove the ones which seem to be surplus to requirements. Just in case." Every few years, when the volume of keys on my key ring amounts to a tympanic, spike-laden tennis ball of metal, like something from the mind of Marcel Duchamp, I do a purge. Surely a purge of cables would be similar?
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