This one also feels less like a direct response to JD and more like its own little beast. Although I do think it fits into the spirit of “setting a scene, putting ghosts in it, and then getting excited about the ghosts.” I’ve mainly had the themes of a movie I haven’t seen, but would like to see flitting around in my head. Unrueh (or Unrest in English) is about the advent of industrial clockmaking in the small Swiss town of Saint-Imier and the dawn of the labor movement and European anarchism. As I said, I haven’t seen the movie, but those few details were enough for me to make my own little horologer affinity group. They are up to ✨shenanigans✨.
My music recommendation for today is New Star Song
Prayer of the Rogue Horologers
You can hear the escapement click over the square
minutes passing by the hour
bracing for the signal flare.
We’ve synchronized our faces,
plans etched in our brains.
We know our maps and timing,
atomic clocks embedded in our veins.
You open up our bag, we check on our gear.
The world of tomorrow lives
just on the other side of fear.
Will you wait with me
just a little longer?
You’re one I can stand to be around.
It’s the little seconds,
caught between the teeth
that will save us once we’re found.