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Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.
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The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.
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Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land.
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In practical terms the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west.
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I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
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The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow.
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The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.
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The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.
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The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.
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The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.
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Today she is the lady of death, which I believe is the best muse to have.
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The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
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In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
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If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.
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