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Sylvie and Bruno - The Outlandish watch
Identifier
011129
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Lewis Carroll - Sylvie and Bruno
Silently the Professor drew from his pocket a square gold watch, with six or eight hands and held it out for my inspection.
‘This’ he began ‘is an Outlandish watch – ‘
‘So I should have thought’
‘ – which has the peculiar property that, instead of its going with the time, the time goes with it. I trust you understand me now?’
‘Hardly’ I said
‘Permit me to explain. So long as I let it alone, it takes its own course. Time has no effect upon it’
‘I have known such watches’ I remarked
‘It goes, of course, at the usual rate. Only the time has to go with it. Hence if I move the hands, I change the time. To move them forwards, in advance of the true time, is impossible, but I can move them as much as a month backwards – that is the limit. And then you have the events all over again – with any alterations experience may suggest’
The source of the experience
Carroll, LewisConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
TimeSymbols
SquareWheel with eight spokes
Wheel with eight spokes based on the Zodiac
Wheel with six spokes