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February 28, 2017
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| He invented a new clock. Usually a clock shows on its round surface numbers going from 1 to 12 clockwise. The short hand goes around the face two times, it means AM and PM. There is another type, a one day clock. The short hand turns around only one time. In this case, the numbers on the face are 12 at the upper middle and 1, 2, 3, c and the bottom is 12 again and 1, 2, 3, c going up. The right half shows AM, and the left half shows PM. But, on the clock that he invented, there was a 13 on the bottom between 12 and 1. The clock had 25 hours. Of course, one day has only 24 hours. 24 hours is 1,440 minutes. The inventor thought what if he changed 24 hours to 25 hours, what would happen? It was not difficult. He bought a 24 hour type clock and took out the face and sealed his new 25 hour face on it, that's it. The clock divided 1,440 minutes by 25. It means that one hour is 57 minutes 36 seconds. So the new clock is 2 minutes and 24 seconds shorter than a normal clock. He didn't think that this clock would be sold. But some people bought it. At first, mainly writers. She was a writer. She worked from 8 to 12 in the morning, and after an hour rest, she  continued working from 1 to 5 in the afternoon. Some writers worked regularly like her. Of course, writers can work any time, they are not office workers. But in that case, how do they control their working time? "Today I don't feel like working, I'll listen to music and then my feeling might change." There are these types of lures everywhere. So they decided their own working time in advance. But recently she felt fatigued when she was in front of her desk at around one o'clock. Maybe she became old. At first, she thought to rest until 1:30. But, she gave up that idea because she could push back working until 1:45 on some days, and 2:00 or 2:15 on others. And then she found out about this clock. After she started using this clock, she worked from 8 to 12 with the new clock. On a regular clock it would be 7:40:48 to 11:31:12. Then she worked from 1:00 to 5:00 with the new clock, which would be 1:26:24 to 5:16:48. (She actually worked for only 7 hours 40 minutes and 48 seconds.) She took a rest from 12:00 to 1:00, which would be on a normal clock 11:31:12 to 1:26:24, about two hours. At first, this seems strange, but because the 13 is in the middle between 12 and 1, this occurs. She liked this clock thinking that she got a 'new one hour for free' without changing her original working period. Also, house wives began to buy this clock as well. The inventor was happy that his invention worked, so he made a second version. It was more elaborate than the first version. This was a digital watch which normally showed the present time. But you can add the extra hour at any place. For example: He was an office worker. He set the extra hour between 6 and 7 p.m. He wanted to use this 'extra' time to learn the Russian language. He worked from 8:30 to 5:15 p.m. On this day, he got home around 6 p.m. He pushed the special button on his watch. The new time started. He started to learn Russian using a textbook and CD. After a certain period, he looked at his watch. It showed 6:17 p.m. He smiled. He knew that the watch was proceeding slower than a normal watch. After all, he studied Russian until his watch read 7:00. After that he took a bath, cooked dinner and ate it with wine. He read a newspaper and a magazine. When he turned on TV and watched the news, he realized the 'real time' on the screen for the first time after he got home. Since he could concentrate on learning Russian, and since he could relax, he couldn't tell how the real time was proceeding. After all, he learned Russian for two hours. If he studied Russian in the normal time, he wouldn't think "I'll study for two hours!" But as his watch deceived him, he could study for two hours. Thanks to his additional learning time, his learning became efficient and it gave him confidence which could be maintained. After a while, he went to bed and set the alarm clock at 7:00 in the morning and went to sleep. He only had one clock, this clock, in his house so he wasn't disturbed by real time as much as possible. He didn't need to reset his watch because it was designed to return to the normal time at midnight. This watch became popular. When people used this watch, they felt a little bit free from the real time. They could remember that time is something that you can feel depending on the situation. If you are just looking at your watch, you feel that the time is proceeding very slowly and time is long; but, if you concentrate on something or are enjoying something, you would feel that time passes fast. This watch would give momentum to the people who were living in a busy life but were thinking to want to start something to make their lives more valuable. |
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*lure :Uf·ι
*push back :Έκή