Those of you who have been following my pennings will remember that two of my recent posts included the Chrononphage, or Corpus Clock. The first discussed the clock itself, and the second (a poem) linked it with the credit crunch.
Now here's the thing. There may be more to this 'ere clock than meets the Eye of Horus, as they say. Just as the Eye of Horus is more than just an eye, it seems that this Chronophage Clock might have more than one story to tell. I can't say too much at the moment, because I don't know that much. What I do know, is that there is a dedicated team looking into it.
So how has it come to pass, I hear you ask, that a sheep living in France, would know anything about the Corpus Clock Conspiracy; for conspiracy it is deemed to be. How, indeed. Well, I was contacted! And No, I wasn't beamed-up into an alien spaceship. This is France and aliens can't be doing with all that bureaucracy.
I was contacted directly by the team itself, because my poem, linking the credit crunch and the chronophage, strays somewhat into the conspiracy team's area of interest. They note that the unveiling of the clock, the banning of 'short selling' in the US, and the problems with the CERN Hadron Collider were oddly concurrent. Also, they draw attention to the fact that the clock has "...strange occult symbolism in its design", mysterious "undisclosed" patents and a Latin inscription on it. (The latter, "Mundus transit et Concupiscentiaeius" must, I feel sure, be the Vitruvian Man (or Vitruvian Mouton) equivalent of the first clue to the supposed conspiracy.)
So, if you like the idea of conspiracy theories or just conspiracies, or theory, or clocks or time, or mysterious patents, (the Particle Zoo), or me: please visit Corpus Clock Conspiracy and ask yourself the following questions:
1) Do we have an extraordinarily beautiful clock which (in an ontological sense) is just that.
2) Are we looking at, like Lacus Curtius, an emerging mystery of epic proportions?
3) Should we prepare ourselves for the next big blockbuster: The Da Crunchy Code?
Now here's the thing. There may be more to this 'ere clock than meets the Eye of Horus, as they say. Just as the Eye of Horus is more than just an eye, it seems that this Chronophage Clock might have more than one story to tell. I can't say too much at the moment, because I don't know that much. What I do know, is that there is a dedicated team looking into it.
So how has it come to pass, I hear you ask, that a sheep living in France, would know anything about the Corpus Clock Conspiracy; for conspiracy it is deemed to be. How, indeed. Well, I was contacted! And No, I wasn't beamed-up into an alien spaceship. This is France and aliens can't be doing with all that bureaucracy.
I was contacted directly by the team itself, because my poem, linking the credit crunch and the chronophage, strays somewhat into the conspiracy team's area of interest. They note that the unveiling of the clock, the banning of 'short selling' in the US, and the problems with the CERN Hadron Collider were oddly concurrent. Also, they draw attention to the fact that the clock has "...strange occult symbolism in its design", mysterious "undisclosed" patents and a Latin inscription on it. (The latter, "Mundus transit et Concupiscentiaeius" must, I feel sure, be the Vitruvian Man (or Vitruvian Mouton) equivalent of the first clue to the supposed conspiracy.)
So, if you like the idea of conspiracy theories or just conspiracies, or theory, or clocks or time, or mysterious patents, (the Particle Zoo), or me: please visit Corpus Clock Conspiracy and ask yourself the following questions:
1) Do we have an extraordinarily beautiful clock which (in an ontological sense) is just that.
2) Are we looking at, like Lacus Curtius, an emerging mystery of epic proportions?
3) Should we prepare ourselves for the next big blockbuster: The Da Crunchy Code?
6 comments:
MM,
My first impulse was to dismiss your chronophage "conspiracy" linking together the Hadron Collider and the financial disaster that is emanating from the United States. But the more I thought about it, the more sense it makes, all of these credit defalut swaps that have swept the financial markets into a black hole from which there is no return. Where has all that money gone? The clincher is that it comes from you, a humble sheep living out your days in France Profonde. You have nothing to gain from making up such a tale, unlike humans of whom I would immediately suspect devious motivation. Reveal more!
And surely it can't just be coincidence that the designer of this so-called clock, Dr. John Taylor of Cambridge, is also the holder of the patent on the thermostatic switch for electric kettles. Presumably, however long one watches the clock for, it's not going to boil dry.
Well, Mr Geyser, it's a bit of a rum do and no mistake. I don't know what to make of it all. Strangely enough, I have been writing about the clock, the credit crunch, The Collider and Higgs Boson in close succession, so something must be in the ether for it to be drifting over to France.
"Watch this space" is all I can say and all we can do. Pity it doesn't make happier viewing!
Thank you so much for your kind words, and for calling attention to our research project! We have been rather busy as of late this week... research into the fascinating world of occult conspiracies does not, unfortunately, pay our bills here at Corpus Clock Conspiracy central. Rest assured, we hope to have more of our research available very soon!
Warm Regards,
The Corpus Clock Conspiracy Crew
Ah Andy B. A well made observation, made well. It's all very interesting, don't you think? Now you have made the link between kettle and clock, I'm sure that the next time we put the kettle on, we'll all be thinking about time being eaten away. That means a lot of eating time because we'll all be needing plenty of tea to calm our nerves with all these conspiracy theories flying about.
Hey there CCCC
I'm sorry to hear that financial considerations are impeding your very exciting research activities. I'm sure my readers would want me to encourage you to keep at it, as best you can. Perhaps you can do a bit of googling during your no-need-to-watch-the-kettle tea breaks?
In anticipation
MM
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