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Temporal Anomalies –
April 13, 2020 |
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We encountered and determined the cause of a temporal anomaly in Frostproof, Florida. The Citizens Bank clock displays four faces with three different times. As constant investigators of such phenomena, we diagnosed the source of the problem at a glance. Painted on one side of the building is a trompe l'oeil door, recalling Egyptian tombs' false doors to the afterlife (doors "as permeable as fog," in chambers "where nothing purports to be real, where everything stands for something else. ... Even in this timeless scene, change is visible"*). Indeed, the false door has manifested timelessness through the visible adjustments of the clock faces. Though the cause is simple enough, great mysteries yet abound, for whose souls have passed through the false door or received offerings through it?
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Temporal Anomalies –
April 7, 2020 |
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It's simultaneously 12:20 and 12:07 in this temporal anomaly at the University of Guelph, documented by David Allan Barker. Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of the timely weirdness, we offer this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies. The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.
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Temporal Anomalies –
March 26, 2020 |
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We encountered and determined the cause of a temporal anomaly in the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado. The clock in the bedroom of our historic farmhouse lodging displays a frozen time. As constant investigators of such phenomena, we saw the source of the problem instantly. Placed right next to the clock is an empty antique birdcage. That relic is the cause of the clock's inoperability. An empty cage traditionally symbolizes that something in one's life has escaped; we've all heard that "time flies," and so QED. Though the cause is simple enough, great mysteries yet abound, for has an old clock in a nearby farmhouse now gained time? By the way, that slip of paper in the corner of our photo is from a fortune cookie that a stranger gifted me after the Ghost concert we attended (ticket and earplugs also pictured). The fortune reads, "Do what is right, not what you should." (And yes, apparently we do take and eat candy from strangers.)
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Temporal Anomalies –
March 18, 2020 |
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It looks like the reflected sign below the clocks says "colon room," and for our purposes that's auspicious, for the colon in a modern clock brings the digital realm to the analog one pictured. Yes, this is a time travel device. For vital instructions on how to use these sorts of photos for mystical ends, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook. This time-bending photograph is from Lambuth's 1977 yearbook.
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Temporal Anomalies –
March 17, 2020 |
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We spotted a temporal anomaly at "the crookedest church in the world." This Greek church, in the village of Ropoto, became wonky due to a landslide. There are two clock towers (bravo!) with faces that don't agree. (The guys from Exploring the Unbeaten Path venture inside the church for a mind-warping experience.) You'll likely have already diagnosed this temporal anomaly: as David Miller has said, "when space is folded, time is folded." Yet profound mysteries yet abound: how is this church intact, resting as it does at that incredible angle?
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Temporal Anomalies –
March 6, 2020 |
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Temporal Anomalies –
March 5, 2020 |
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We encountered and determined the cause of a temporal anomaly in the quaint Victorian downtown of Van Buren, Arkansas. The courthouse clock tower displays two times, only one of which is correct. As constant investigators of such phenomena, we traced the source of the problem almost immediately. Directly below the clock face that announced the wrong time, and next to the 1820 schoolhouse where the prominent Freemason Albert Pike first taught, there is a sundial with a broken pointer. That is the cause of the clock tower's divergence, magnified by the sundial's proximity to one of the oldest standing buildings in Arkansas. Though the cause is simple enough, great mysteries yet abound, for the nature of time itself is shrouded. And what, perchance, do the Freemasons have to do with this particular enigma?
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Temporal Anomalies –
March 2, 2020 |
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Having owned a two-faced clock for twelve years and never being able to get the times to agree, budding chronologician Adam (empowered by our investigations into temporal anomalies) finally realized that something was going on in his house. Though our best diagnoses require on-site inquiries, Adam's photos started some bells ringing:
Spinoza said that there are not two clocks but only one clock with two faces—our conceptions of mind and matter being manifestations of a single reality, a reality knowable by its constituent manifestations. And so, apparently, this is a time for seemingly conflicting messages. It’s been said that one must choose a side or get in the middle, yet how can one get in the middle of a two-faced clock, at least when it’s not part of a tower? Well, there is something inside every timepiece that embodies a piece of time. It’s the oscillation system—pendulum or springs. Yet oscillation systems don’t swing or spring by themselves—they require a constant push. What supplies the oscillation system with energy is called the “escapement.” Better heard than seen, it’s the escapement that gives clockwork its signature ticks and tocks. When shut, the escapement blocks the teeth of the gears. When open, energy flows into the oscillation system. That energy comes from being wound up or pulled with weights. The teeth grind only with energy released from the escapement. (The tooth that grinds the fastest is closest to the escapement—the second-hand.) What to do with all this secondhand knowledge and daily grinds? How can one reach escapement without all the wind-ups? Alas, it depends … because no two clocks are exactly the same. All we know for certain is that a good clockman must work as if he has all the time in the world.
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Temporal Anomalies –
February 12, 2020 |
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We encountered and determined the cause of a temporal anomaly in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania. The clock tower of the Chestnut Hill Baptist church (whose motto, ironically, is "a historic church with a timely message") displays faces with three incorrect times. As constant investigators of such phenomena, we diagnosed the source of the problem at a glance. An oculus window replaces the clock face on the fourth side of the tower and is the cause of the trouble. The architect presumably sought to save a quarter of the cost of clockwork, and while three-quarter time may keep waltzes spinning, such an imbalance in a clock tower is its own death knell. Though the cause is simple enough, great mysteries yet abound, for precisely why does a window into the nature of time trigger a standstill?
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Temporal Anomalies –
February 11, 2020 |
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Temporal Anomalies –
February 5, 2020 |
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It's both 4:10 and 4:25 in this Michiganian temporal anomaly captured by Josh May at Flickr. Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of the timely weirdness, we offer this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies. The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.
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