I don't know how about you, but my personally favorite book of all times is J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". I bet that everyone who read the book is familiar with the following verse:
One Link to rule them all, One Link to find them,
One Ling to bring them all and in the network bond them
The keyword to understanding what the Master had on his mind is the word bond. What Tolkien was referring to, I believe, is bonding of network interfaces.
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