Clocks
Every clock, by section. Every folder.
/clocks/absurd 8
- Sardines, by the tin Count the sardines for the hour. The tin is not getting any bigger.
- Slop, by the drip Slop drips into a jar, one drop a second. Full jars go on the shelf.
- Geological time Today, as rock. Lunch is a thin layer of sandstone.
- Binary, in jars Seventeen jars, some of them full. It is exactly as easy as it sounds.
- The lift Every floor is an hour. It has never stopped at one.
- Receipt Every minute is itemised. The total is the time.
- The colour of now Today comes in 86,400 colours. This is the current one.
- A hurricane in a pocket watch A storm in a watch case, the way the Slopwright makes them. The hands are holding on.
/clocks/surreal 8
- Melting An ordinary clock that got too warm. It still works; it just hangs over the edge.
- Twelve pieces of slop The numbers are Fresh slop, off the wall. They are in the usual places, which helps.
- Fractal Each hand holds a smaller clock. All the way down, all of them right.
- Read by the Assistant The Assistant holds up the time on a card. It only changes the card while you aren’t looking.
- Paper wheels Three paper discs behind a window. No script turns them.
- Sung, in a walnut The Understudy sings the time in the walnut theatre. It won’t go on with the house lights up.
- Word clock, in a mirror It tells the time in words, backwards. The time is backwards too.
- Orrery Three planets go round the lamp. The lamp is on.
/clocks/funny 8
- About lunch It rounds to the nearest meal. Ask again and it gets specific.
- Visitor number A homepage clock in the style of 1998, made in 2026. You are visitor number now.
- Since you got here It only counts from when you arrived. It does remember when that was.
- Drum machine The time, as a beat. It is a different beat every minute.
- Now serving Take a ticket. The queue moves up once a minute.
- Quarterly report The time, presented to the board. Minutes are up on last minute.
- Roman, digital A digital clock that only knows Roman numerals. There is no zero, so it leaves a gap.
- Hands, fighting The hour and minute hands disagree about who matters. They stop every so often to get back to work.
/clocks/badui 8
- Every time but now All 1,440 minutes of the day, except this one. Find the gap.
- Solve for now The time, as homework. The working is not shown.
- Sundial, with a sun you drag The shadow tells the time from wherever you put the sun. Leave it alone and it’s right.
- Wind it by scrolling Clockwork, honest but tired. Scroll to wind it.
- Shuffled dial The numbers were put back in the wrong places. The hands know where they went.
- Installing today Today is still installing. The estimate is doing its best.
- The lamp, in Morse The lamp blinks the time in Morse code. It would rather stay on.
- Scratch card The time is under the silver. Every minute is a new card.