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I've been having My Grandfathers Clock going though my head
(I was going to dig up a YouTube video to embed, for those not familiar with the song, but then I fell down a victor borge rabbit hole. YouTube is dangerous.)
and I kind of want to read a story where, like, the clock *is* the grandfather, somehow, or his soul, or the result of some sort of deal
(what kind of deal do you make with a clock? A timely one...)
or something, because for one thing who the hell goes shopping for a clock when their child is being born, and for another did it *always* weigh exactly the same as him (and therefore grew as he did) or just no more than he ever weighed in the speaker's lifetime, and for a third there's the whole stopping thing, and, like
did the clock talk to him as a kid
was the clock in love with him and died of heartbreak
like, what
(I was going to dig up a YouTube video to embed, for those not familiar with the song, but then I fell down a victor borge rabbit hole. YouTube is dangerous.)
and I kind of want to read a story where, like, the clock *is* the grandfather, somehow, or his soul, or the result of some sort of deal
(what kind of deal do you make with a clock? A timely one...)
or something, because for one thing who the hell goes shopping for a clock when their child is being born, and for another did it *always* weigh exactly the same as him (and therefore grew as he did) or just no more than he ever weighed in the speaker's lifetime, and for a third there's the whole stopping thing, and, like
did the clock talk to him as a kid
was the clock in love with him and died of heartbreak
like, what