The clock maker is old and decrepit. He doesn't seem coherent.
"What?," he asks. "Who are you? I make clocks, but I don't know what time it is! They never work. Listen to the ticking! The ticking! Ha ha ha!." The clock-maker's apprentice looks sadly away as his master rants. He looks at you. "Unfortunately, he has gone insane. He still makes perfect clocks, but he doesn't know it. He grew up with the old water-clocks that were used to keep time before the clock was invented in medieval times. The clocks now keep time perfectly, with only a fifteen second loss each day! The old clocks could be off an hour or more!"


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