Originally published at: The literature clock tells the time by using a quote from a book | Boing Boing
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should we even begin to ask google what time is…
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen”.
George Orwell, 1984
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Sir John was normally awakened at half past eight every morning by a butler who brought him his breakfast, another butler who brought him his clothes, a third butler whose job it was to feed Adolf and Stalin if necessary, and a fourth butler who was basically a spare.
~ Johnny and the Bomb, Terry Pratchett
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I know that it was 10:18 when I got home because I look at my watch a lot.
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
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Are we posting suggestions, or lines that the Literature Clock actually served to us? If the former, here’s mine, from The Big Sleep:
It was about eleven o’clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills
Guess I can check tomorrow morning!
Edit: Wow, I just got a line from Donald E. Westlake 
(Followed by a nice one from The Time Traveler’s Wife)
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GNU Sir Terry Pratchett.
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A bit hard to read it from bed, even if I used a larger screen.
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Does anybody really care? About time?
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