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By candlelight, clockwork hands come alive.Related content
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Describes me or any writer out there all too well.
I love the metaphor about mechanical hands, stressed by the generic labour of the day "coming alive" to create. Simply brilliant!
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Thank you
Interestingly, that wasn't the image I had in mind when writing this, but I really love your interpretation of it! I hadn't thought of it that way, but now that you mention it - I suppose it does fit quite well.
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Ooh, I like the imagery and how you're suggesting something that is beyond the physicality of this realm... hell, we could even be stepping onto magical land here. o.O
I like how it's not something as cliche as "midnight" but "candlelight" instead, which suggests that... perhaps the hands don't come "alive" in its literal sense.
I guess you could interpret it in many ways.
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Thank you
This was inspired by Philip Pullman and Neal Stephenson - two of my favourite authors ever - so I was looking at a quasi-fantastical, historical-sci-fi, steampunk-esque era with a flavour of magical realism, if that even makes sense.
I tried to leave it open to interpretation (as I believe all literature should be...), but I also had a deliberately ambiguous image of the "hands" in my mind as I was writing it: either clockwork hands as in a real clock, or mechanical hands on a puppet...
Thanks again for such a thoughtful comment.
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Ah... awesome!
O.o
Just about!
True...
Interesting stuff for sure.
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