Clock-wise
Sir, —Twelve months ago I drew attention to the Southern Hemisphere anomaly of clocks and watches rotating in the opposite direction to nature’s arbiter of time — the sun. Although Kiwi inventiveness has not responded to this challenge, anti-clockwise, sun-compatible clocks have been discovered in Tasmania and Germany. Minute examination of what makes them tick reveals a battery, so they are strike-proof besides being non-striking. They can be read in the mirror and, even at the eleventh hour, they go like one o’clock. They are a boon for clock-watching sun-wor-shippers (or vice-versa) and a “must” for people who do not know whether they are coming or going. We call ours “Horatius” because, in the poem of that name, “Those behind cried ‘Forward’ And those before cried ‘Back.’ ” —Yours, etc., W. R. ALLARDYCE. January 21, 1988.
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