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I was disappointed when I saw that the chronophage clock does not actually eat anything <more>

Time, the devourer of things (Ovid)


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Why the "of things"? Time itself is a featureless, "odorless, colorless", relative abstraction. To say that time passes, flies, expires, marches on, or keeps on slipping into the future - certainly makes the point, but the impression is of a ghostly wisp that flies past unnoticed.
In contrast, your 12-year-old face; the house you grew up in, bulldozed and built over; Uxmal's grand pyramid, a pile of rubble when Catherton came across it; the perfect roundness of the egg you just cracked - all these things have been eaten up by time, and are gone forever.

I was disappointed when I saw that the chronophage clock does not actually eat anything - its mouth opens and closes, but it's just snapping at the air. My design would have it appear to actually consume the clock dial.

Posted: Mon - October 6, 2008 at 11:50 PM | | | |

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