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by Angela Lorenz
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Bologna, Italy 1990
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| This book takes the form of a portable sun-clock,
originally composed of two ivory or wooden rectangles joined with brass
hinges and hooks. When facing north, a cord fixed at the latitude casts
a shadow indicating the hour. The ten etchings approximate sun-clocks
from the 16th-19th centuries mad in Germany and Japan. One copy was printed
for each hour of the day in Times.
[printed in] Verona |
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To be on
time in Time took time. For timing, time and again, depended on elements other than men. When the waters froze, The water clock had woes with its aqueous flows. When the winds did blow, The candle clock burned low, Or ceased to glow. When the seas would rock, So did the clock And no longer ticked-tock. |
The only clock
these trials could stand came in the form of Time: the sand. But it needed a constant hand. Day in day out, the only one that worked on its own was known as the sun. A stick in the mud, An obelisk grand. A stone on its side, The shadow of man. Theonly tick of this clock in its day, was when the sun went away. |