Art is Relative
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A short piece featuring a watchmaker. I wanted to try writing about something I knew little about, so I chose the process of crafting a pocket watch. *update* I wrote a short story based on the short piece. In a fantasy world at war, an innovative watchmaker finds herself required to mend a clockwork machine gun in order to save her life.
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The clockwork man is crafted, to begin with-his father forced by that terrible tyrant Time to create her a slave for all eternity. His brain boasts balance wheels and torsion springs; he can wind himself up with a key in his side; and, most importantly, his gyroscopic tourbillon heart glimmers with pure diamond. He is a living being and he is art, and he refuses to remain a slave forever. He therefore slips through Time's fingers as the Sands of Time slip through the cracks of reality (at least, when the time cats aren't using them as a litter box). Among astounding adventures, despite harrowing hardships, and in between escaping interfering enchanters, the clockwork man seeks his imagination, his purpose, and his name.
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