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Weekly Contest #234
The last clock was burned seventeen years before I was born. As a child, I marveled at the image of a clock in our historical texts. The little hand and big hand, going around and around with no other obligations. The Government workers modeled their lives around the clock. It told them what time to wake up, what time to kiss their children goodbye, how long their hands were going to toil until bleeding and blistered, how long until they would do it all over again. The world carried on this way until the people began to rebel. They w...
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