There are two kinds of clocks, Jerome explains: the one that is always wrong and glories in it, and the one that is always right except when you rely upon it. From household timepieces he wanders, as he loves to do, into a mock-heroic sermon on humbug and the poor flimsy king called Appearances whom everyone must hold up.
A short, characteristically wry essay from the author of Three Men in a Boat. Download the free EPUB.