breakdown, n.Definitions

Breakdown is that which provokes a space of possibility.

Breakdown is a moment when a space of possibility opens up in the gaps of things not working smoothly.

The Breakdown is not abnormal — people break down, too, not just machinery.

A Breakdown is never a thing one can predict. Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruelest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

A Breakdown is a window into the essence of a thing. It is only when machines go wrong that they remind you how powerful they are.