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08:45 is a difficult time

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2005-05-31 09:53:37 - Graham Ellis

Over the past couple of weeks, two of our clocks have stopped at a quarter to nine.

Co-incidence? Something macabre? A haunting?

Theory - at a quarter to 9, both hands of the clock are on the rise and the battery has to work harder to drive the mechanism and lift them. A scientific conjecture, and an explanation that I prefer to anything supernatural. Being a scientist, I await with interest our next stopping clock so that I can gain further evidence of a pattern, or lack thereof.