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Reading Shakespeare's Tempest the other night, I have been struck by a from me until now unnoticed horological reference in the first scene of Act II. The evil but otherwise rather insignificant Sebastiano has perhaps its best line of the play mocking honest Gonzalo's good-intended eloquence:
"Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.".
I thought sharing it with you at the opening of the Week-End might be a way to somehow sustain my own pleasure.
Volney.
Watches in literature.
Reading Shakespeare's Tempest the other night, I have been struck by a from me until now unnoticed horological reference in the first scene of Act II. The evil but otherwise rather insignificant Sebastiano has perhaps its best line of the play mocking hon...
Beautiful passage. I've never read Balzac, but I've heard lots of good things.
It sounds like a pocket watch from the description. Thanks for the translation. I have this from a more modern author, a translation from the Japanese: 'He glanced at the Heuer watch on his left wrist. It was 8:50. Passengers had begun boarding the expres...
