The Twilight Zone
While the Northern Hemisphere sleeps, Aucklanders are picking up the slack.
By Amy Cameron
Published in Metro Magazine December 2008
"There was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and was very honest," wrote the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s.
"But still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make one pair of shoes.
"Then he cut his leather out, all ready to make up the next day, meaning to rise early in the morning to his work... In the morning after he had said his prayers, he sat himself down to his work; when, to his great wonder, there stood the shoes all ready made, upon the table."
Fast forward a couple of centuries, and the shoemaker's helpful elves are hard-working Aucklanders. The shoes? They could be a freshly translated document, or a couple of hours of edited film footage. A fix for a software bug, or a newly drafted patent.
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