Wait a Minim
I was recently among a collection of clocks and I mean a lot of clocks. There were pendulums swinging, bells chiming and lots of ticking. Some hands were moving slowly and quickly others barely or not moving at all. There was a lot of movement in general.
Most remarkable was the sound. As all clocks were ticking at once it sounded like a waterfall; not a thunderous one, but a waterfall of individual drops. I stood in the center of the room and was bathed in a waterfall of minims of time.
posted by The Guy Who Writes This at 4:00 AM
4 Comments:
The man who fixed my old music box had an outstanding collection of clocks in his shop.
When I was a kid staying at Grandma's, her house was so quiet (in the country, no TV) that the main sound you heard through the house was her alarm clock ticking.
Had to look up the word "mimims." Always learning something new here.
Excellent. I don't think I could sleep with all that ticking going on, but I've always had a special place in my heart for clockwork things. I love the whole "Steampunk" thing with their fetish for victorian steam/clockwork type devices. My problem with that many clocks is I would want to take them apart and make something else out of them.
Donna, it was a comforting sound, grandmother's clock.
Beth, a perfect word being that it can be used in music, sound and liquid. I love words. Wait a Minim was also a Broadway play that lasted only a minim.
Darev You could give clocks away at work. That could really annoy the population.
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