A Clockmaker's Fantasy

Excited by the extraordinary events happened that day of April, clockmaker Jonathan Dillon decided to exceed his functions engraving political proclamations on the surface of the pieces belonging to the special clock he was working on, Abraham's Lincoln clock.

Two attitudes toward time became overlapped with his action. Transgressed the rule of his trade, the clockmaker interrupted for a moment the construction of mechanical time and universe and contributed instead to the widening of the inform memory and accumulation of events.

In this chapter of The Croopier, so close we are to clocks and clockmakers, we have tried to emulate the fantasy charge of Dillon's retraction with another story about time and illusion.