Time

[makes_you_tick]

I'd like to remind everyone that I'm still conducting horology classes on Wednesday nights, if anyone else is interested. I'd be happy to start from the beginning for anyone who comes by. For those that have been here awhile, I think we might get started on building your own timepieces. We can do a few large-scales. They tend to turn out more like obvious art pieces, and I'll give you the know-how to make sure they're always keeping time correctly.

Wesley, sorry to bother you, but- is there any way I could get another copy of the trip down to the Clock? Mine got melted.

Comments

[notexactlyhuman.livejournal.com]

Horology, huh? Sounds like time well spent.

[makes-you-tick.livejournal.com]

It keeps me busy.

[notexactlyhuman.livejournal.com]

Better than sitting on your ass all the time.

voice

[a-silent-due.livejournal.com]

Ho... rology?

[makes-you-tick.livejournal.com]

Oh, I never do that.

[notexactlyhuman.livejournal.com]

Didn't think so. Not like you.

voice

[makes-you-tick.livejournal.com]

Horology. It's the science of measuring time. What I teach is how clocks and watches operate, how the pieces fit together to make a perfectly working whole.

voice

[a-silent-due.livejournal.com]

Just say you're a craftsman.

voice

[makes-you-tick.livejournal.com]

Not impressed, I take it?

voice

[a-silent-due.livejournal.com]

Call it what it is. Horology... tch. No reason making it sound better than the obvious.

voice

[makes-you-tick.livejournal.com]

You seemed confused as to what horology was, so I told you.

Re: voice

[a-silent-due.livejournal.com]

If you call it clock-making from now on, everyone'll get it without explanations.

voice

[makes-you-tick.livejournal.com]

That's not all there is to it. But so noted.

My name is Gabriel Sylar, by the way. You are?

voice

[a-silent-due.livejournal.com]

...someone whose questions you'll answer.

If you make clocks, you should know about the one ticking in everyone's bloody head in this City.

[discessum.livejournal.com]

It's gone. It's all gone.

[abdicate-you.livejournal.com]

Such devices.

Why do they fascinate you?

voice

[makes-you-tick.livejournal.com]

Too true.

The ticking has been of some interest to me, actually.

[makes-you-tick.livejournal.com]

So they got to you, too. I tore apart half my living room trying to catch it.

What do you want to bet those little things hit everyone who had a copy?

[discessum.livejournal.com]

Clearly not a coincidence.

Did you manage to see what it was?

[makes-you-tick.livejournal.com]

Because they're analogous to many other systems I see in life. Timepieces are intricate, and it's difficult to see how every piece influences another, at first glance. The movement is beautiful, but to an outside observer, it's impossible to see what orchestrated the dance.

Once you understand the individual pieces, what they're there for- why a balance wheel is necessary, how the quartz can power a watch- it's understanding a new language.

Once you understand how a system works, you can influence it in your own way, make it do anything you'd like.

[abdicate-you.livejournal.com]

You seek a peculiar sort of power in this manner.

Small pieces, as you said.

[starfleet-pimp.livejournal.com]

All of our information on the Clock was destroyed too.

[dreamsofnoah]

Will there be candy again?

...is the girly Exorcist bothering you~?

[nuking.livejournal.com]

I'd say it wasn't me, but I think you've already worked that one out yourself.

[makes-you-tick.livejournal.com]

Something metal. It was very small. There was a red eye. I couldn't catch it with telekinesis, and electricity was entirely ineffective.

It must've been the City's doing.