Mummers' Curse
“ENJOY THEM.
THE TIME IS NOW: 10:47 P.M.
Enjoy them, indeed. Who had thought the device up? What kind of person bought it as a Christmas gift—and for whom, with what motive? As I watched, my remaining time dwindled, second by second. Three hundred and fifty-nine thousand hours didn’t seem enough, particularly when I could watch them diminish. I worried whether the clock maker had accounted for the leap years in my future, for daylight saving time, for medical breakthroughs and random violence. D...id this mean it didn’t matter if I exercised or started smoking again or rode a motorcycle without a helmet or jaywalked?
When the telephone rang, I realized that I had dozed off. The Doomsday clock said 1:05 a.m. Also that I had two hours and eighteen minutes less to live.
The caller brusquely asked if Mackenzie was there and told me that if so, I should immediately wake him.
We’d overslept. The alarm on the real clock, hastily and wrongly set for a.m. instead of p.m., had remained silent.MoreLess
THE TIME IS NOW: 10:47 P.M.
Enjoy them, indeed. Who had thought the device up? What kind of person bought it as a Christmas gift—and for whom, with what motive? As I watched, my remaining time dwindled, second by second. Three hundred and fifty-nine thousand hours didn’t seem enough, particularly when I could watch them diminish. I worried whether the clock maker had accounted for the leap years in my future, for daylight saving time, for medical breakthroughs and random violence. D...id this mean it didn’t matter if I exercised or started smoking again or rode a motorcycle without a helmet or jaywalked?
When the telephone rang, I realized that I had dozed off. The Doomsday clock said 1:05 a.m. Also that I had two hours and eighteen minutes less to live.
The caller brusquely asked if Mackenzie was there and told me that if so, I should immediately wake him.
We’d overslept. The alarm on the real clock, hastily and wrongly set for a.m. instead of p.m., had remained silent.MoreLess
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