Lilas Ikuta - Time Machine

I wish I could return

to the time when I knew nothing.

Even knowing the ending would never change,

I still longed for a little time

to escape and look away.

The single lie you told,

in just an instant,

turned the colorful days we had built

into monotonous black and white.

My eyes grew clouded,

and even everything I saw

lost its light.

But in truth, I lied too.

Shouting that it was for both our sakes,

I left behind an answer

opposite to my heart.

Convincing myself it was the right choice

to deceive myself.

If a time machine truly existed in this world,

if there were magic to erase everything,

I would wish for no memory to remain.

If we could meet again, that alone would be enough.

How many times I wished for that—

even now, I wish to fall in love with you once more.

Your helplessness always made me sad,

yet gave me a happiness

I could never find anywhere else.

Compared to all the months and years we shared,

the ending was too abrupt,

disproportionate to what we had.

The future we sketched together,

I erased piece by piece.

And each time, I wondered—

if another future had existed,

would we be laughing together now?

Such thoughts linger endlessly.

Even if a time machine truly existed,

I could never erase everything.

Not the days we loved so deeply.

If there was love,

then being bound together,

and being torn apart,

all held meaning.

So that someday,

on the day I fall into my final love,

I can say with all my heart:

“It was wonderful to meet you.”

And let this goodbye

be one I can accept.

Next time, I will never

let go of someone’s precious hand.

I hope that someday I’ll understand—

this was a love

that taught me what mattered most.

A journey I was meant to experience.

Similar words

machine: a piece of equipment with many parts that work together to do a particular task. The power used to work a machine may be electricity, steam, gas, etc. or human power.

mechanics [uncountable] the science of movement and force

mechanism: a method or a system for achieving something

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P 模式

程式自動曝光（Program AE，簡稱 P 模式）是一種半自動攝影模式，相機會根據環境亮度自動設定「光圈」和「快門速度」以獲得平衡曝光。相比全自動模式，P 模式允許攝影師自由調整 ISO、白平衡、閃光燈和曝光補償（EV），適合想專注構圖又需一定自定義功能的場景。

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一字之差

巴基斯坦

• Pakistan
• country in southern Asia bordering the Arabian Sea; originally comprising two parts—West Pakistan (now Pakistan) and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)—separated by about 1000 miles (1600 kilometers) of northern India; a dominion 1947–56, an Islamic republic since 1956, and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations 1956–72; formed from parts of former British India; capital Islamabad area 307,374 square miles (796,095 square kilometers), population 207,863,000
• www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary
• 巴勒斯坦
• Palestine
• Palestine, region of Southwest Asia along the eastern Mediterranean, generally regarded as consisting of the southern coastal area between Egypt, where Asia meets Africa, and Tyre, which in ancient times was the most prominent of the Phoenician city-states.
• www.britannica.com/place

functions in python

parenthesis: IPA[pəˈrenθəsɪs]

parentheses /pəˈrenθəsiːz/

Common Uses of Shift + Enter

- Jupyter Notebook / JupyterLab

- Runs the current cell and moves to the next one.

- Equivalent to executing code in that cell.

- VS Code (with Python extension)

- By default, it can send selected code to the terminal or Python Interactive window.

- Sometimes it runs code in the terminal instead of the interactive window, depending on your settings.

- You can customize this in Keyboard Shortcuts by mapping Shift + Enter to Python: Run Selection/Line in Python Interactive Window.

In Python, the keyword def is used to define a function. Functions are reusable blocks of code that perform a specific task when called

In Python, the return statement is used inside a function to send a value back to the caller. It’s one of the most important ways to control the flow of data in your program.

Examples

Returning a value:

def square(n):

    return n * n

result = square(4)

print(result)  # Output: 16

append something (to something) to add something to the end of a piece of writing

def greet(name):

    print("Hello,", name)

x = greet("Samson")

print(x)  # Output: None

- Use return when you want your function to produce a value that can be used later.

- Skip return when your function’s job is just to perform an action (like printing or updating a file)

- With return → function is like a vending machine (you get something back).

- Without return → function is like a loudspeaker (it just outputs sound, but you don’t get a reusable object).

Mainly from Microsoft Copilot

Feature of Python

Indentation in Python

Unlike many other programming languages, Python uses indentation to define code blocks instead of braces {} or keywords. This makes indentation not just stylistic, but syntactically required.

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Operators in Python

Double asterisk in Python: exponentiation operator

print(10 % 3)   # 1   (because 10 = 3*3 + 1)

print(25 % 7)   # 4   (because 25 = 7*3 + 4)

The operator <= means “less than or equal to.”

Python has two membership operators that test whether a value is present in a sequence (like a list, tuple, string, or set) or a mapping (like a dictionary).

d = {"x": 10, "y": 20}

print("x" in d)        # True

print(10 in d)         # False (10 is a value, not a key)

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