Walk through any thoroughfare of our capital city and you will see this for yourself. We may carry many means of telling the time on our person, but one will be hard pressed to find a public clock that is in concord. There is far more to this than a simple lapse in the maintenance of clocks, especially as this phenomenon is evident throughout the city.
Many timepieces in this city have frozen at a long forgotten time. These clocks expose an era that we thought past, but has never truly left. The previous atrocity, hardship, glory and triumph of this metropolis are not, as some claim, foundations on which we have built. Instead, they are constant occurrences that have never been removed from the continuum of city life. These clocks can no more be put forward than the city can be divorced from its' past.
One can also observe many clocks in this city that are running at a much faster pace than we would deem normal. Again, I do not believe that this is coincidental in a city that is constantly striving to view, shape and create the future. Many pockets of this capital are dealing with the emerging conveniences, luxuries, crimes and depravities that the future will bring. This future is as inescapable as the constant metronome of the clock.
The city does not control time, but if one looks carefully, it is evident that time is not in control of the city either.
-The English Student
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