In a truly just universe, Tom Robbins would stand beside Stephen Hawking in unveiling the Corpus Clock in Cambridge today--Tom Robbins on the left, Stephen Hawking on the right. Each shines a dazzling light in his own way to dispel the darkness in our world. (And Tom's unveiling expertise cannot be denied. [see: Skinny Legs and All].)
From Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Take now the clockworks... The clockworks, being genuine and not much to look at, don't generate the drama of an Earth-tilt or a flying saucer, nor do they seem to offer any immediate panacea for humanity's fifty-seven varieties of heartburn. But suppose that you're one of those persons who feels trapped, to some degree, trapped matrimonially, occupationally, educationally or geographically, or trapped in something larger than all those; trapped in a system, or what you might describe as an "increasingly deadening technocracy" or a "theater of paranoia and desperation" or something like that. Now, if you are one of those persons... wouldn't the very knowledge that there are clockworks ticking away behind the wallpaper of civilization, unbeknownst to leaders, organizers and managers (the President included), wouldn't that knowledge, suggesting as it does the possibility of unimaginable alternatives, wouldn't that knowledge be a bubble bath for your heart?
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