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It has weight, it shifts when you move your arm, it knocks against a desk when you reach for something. Every one of those is a small interruption, and an amulet that interrupts you is doing more work than one you stop noticing. This is the version for someone who wants to be reminded, not decorated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe barrel hanging off the strand is a mantra cylinder\u003c\/strong\u003e, engraved in panels with Tibetan script and modelled on the prayer wheels that stand in rows outside Tibetan temples, where people run a hand along them as they walk past. 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