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If it is the case he'll be disappointed. Dreams don't interest him that this should be real is a richer possibility. And he's entirely himself he is certain of it and he knows that sleep is behind him to know the difference between it and waking to know the boundaries is the essence of sanity. Saturday Ian McEwan Kitpill 03 43 00h "The clock says 3.43am. The thermometer says it's a chilly fourteen degrees Fahrenheit. The weatherman says the cold spell will last until Thursday so bundle up and bundle up some more. There are icicles barring the window of the bat cave." Ghostwritten David Mitchell philipmatthews 03 51 00h I lacked the will and physical strength to get out of bed and move through the dark house clutching walls and stair rails. To feel my way reinhabit my body re-enter the world. Sweat trickled down my ribs. The digital reading on the clock-radio was 3 51. Always odd numbered at times like this. What does it mean Is death odd-numbered White Noise Don DeLillo 03 58 00h The clock atop the clubhouse reads 3 58. Underworld Don Delillo Sal Paradise650 03.47 00h I stayed awake until 3 47. That was the last time I looked at my watch before I fell asleep. It has a luminous face and lights up if you press a button so I could read it in the dark. I was cold and I was frightened Father might come out and find me. But I felt safer in the garden because I was hidden. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 04 00 00h Waking at four to soundless dark I stare Aubade poem Philip Larkin silentprinter 04 00 00h The night before Albert Kessler arrived in Santa Teresa at four in the morning Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez got a call from Azucena Esquivel Plata reporter and PRI congresswoman. 2666 p 583 hardback UK edn Roberto Bolano Bronte 04 00 00h When he noticed that the chefs from the grand hotels and restaurants - a picky impatient bunch - tended to move around from seller to seller buying apples here and broccoli there he asked if he could have tea available for them. Tommy agreed and the chefs grateful for a hot drink at four in the morning lingered and bought. The Tea Rose Jennifer Donnelly thecommonreader 04 00 00h "Nothing happened " he said wanly. "I waited and about four o'clock she came to the window and stood there for a minute and then turned out the light." The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Sarah Churchwell 04 00 00h Waking at four to soundless dark I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what's really always there Unresting death a whole day nearer now Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall myself die. Aubade Philip Larkin jeven 04 00 00h I looked at the clock and it was yes you guessed it four am. I should have taken comfort from the fact that approximately quarter of the Greenwich Mean Time world had just jolted awake also and were lying staring miserably into the darkness worrying ..." Watermelon Marian Keyes 04 00 00h Waking at four to soundless dark I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what's really always there Unresting death a whole day nearer now Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall myself die. Aubade Philip Larkin 04 00 00h The Birds begun at Four o'clock— Their period for Dawn— Emily Dickinson 04 00 00h Suddenly he started to cry. Curled up on the sofa he sobbed loudly. Michel looked at his watch it was just after 4am. On the screen a wild cat had a rabbit in its mouth. Atomised Michel Houellebecq terribleman 04 00 00h It's four in the morning the end of December. I'm writing you now just to see if you're better. New York is cold but I like where I'm living. There's music on Clinton Street all through the evening Famous Blue Raincoat from 'Stranger Music' Leonard Cohen Blaydon 04 12 00h Finally she signalled with her light that she'd made it to the top. I signalled back then shined the light downward to see how far the water had risen. I couldn't make out a thing. My watch read four-twelve in the morning. Not yet dawn. The morning papers still not delivered trains not yet running citizens of the surface world fast asleep oblivious to all this. I pulled the rope taut with both hands took a deep breath then slowly began my climb. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami cindeesan 04 12 00h Finally she signaled with her light that she'd made it to the top. I signaled back then shined the light downward to see how far the water had risen. I couldn't make out a thing. My watch read four-twelve in the morning. Not yet dawn. The morning papers still not delivered trains not yet running citizens of the surface world fast asleep oblivious to all this. I pulled the rope taut with both hands took a deep breath then slowly began my climb. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami Cindeesan 04 16 00h I stooped to pick up my watch from the floor. Four-sixteen. Another hour until dawn. I went to the telephone and dialled my own number. It'd been a long time since I'd called home so I had to struggle to remember the number. I let it ring fifteen times no answer. I hung up dialled again and let it ring another fifteen times. Nobody. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami cindeesan 04 18 00h Somebody had drilled a hole in my head and was stuffing it full of something like string. An awfully long string apparently because the reel kept unwinding into my head. I was flailing my arms yanking at it but try as I might the string kept coming in. I sat up and ran my hands over my head. But there was no string. No holes either. A bell was ringing. Ringing ringing ringing. I grabbed the alarm clock threw it on my lap and slapped the red and black buttons with both hands. The ringing didn't stop. The telephone The clock read four-eighteen. It was dark outside. Four-eighteen a.m. I got out of bed and picked up the receiver. "Hello " I said.No sound came from the other end of the line. Hard Boiled Haruki Murakami Cindeesan 04 18 00h Somebody had drilled a hole in my head and was stuffing it full of something like string. An awfully long string apparently because the reel kept unwinding into my head. I was flailing my arms yanking at it but try as I might the string kept coming in. I sat up and ran my hands over my head. But there was no string. No holes either. A bell was ringing. Ringing ringing ringing. I grabbed the alarm clock threw it on my lap and slapped the red and black buttons with both hands. The ringing didn't stop. The telephone The clock read four-eighteen. It was dark outside. Four-eighteen a.m.I got out of bed and picked up the receiver. "Hello " I said.No sound came from the other end of the line. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami Cindeesan 04 23 04h Her chip pulsed the time. 04 23 04. It had been a long day. Neuromancer William Gibson Proto Plasm 04 25 00h As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Jeanne 04 30 00h Tonight Clenette H. and the deeply whacked out Yolanda W. come back in from Footprints around 2315 in purple skirts and purple lipstick and ironed hair tottering on heels and telling each other what a wicked time they just had. Hester Thrale undulates in in a false fox jacket at 2330 as usual even though she has to be up at like 0430 for the breakfast shift at the Provident Nursing Home and sometimes eats breakfast with Gately both their faces nodding perilously close to their Frosted Flakes. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace translated 04 30 00h At the end of a relationship it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches. I was overwhelmed by a sense of betrayal betrayal because a union in which I had invested so much had been declared bankrupt without my feeling it to be so. Chloe had not given it a chance I argued with myself knowing the hopelessness of these inner courts announcing hollow verdicts at four thirty in the morning. Essays on Love Alain de Botton @alanawhitman 04 45 00h He lies still in the darkness and listens. His wife's breathing at his side is so faint that he can scarcely hear it. One of these mornings she'll be lying dead beside me and I won't even notice he thinks. Or maybe it'll be me. Daybreak will reveal that one of us has been left alone. He checks the clock on the table next to the bed. The hands glow and register 4 45 a.m. Faceless Killers Henning Mankell Ellebeam 04 46 00h The phone rang again at four-forty-six."Hello " I said. "Hello " came a woman's voice. "Sorry about the time before. There's a disturbance in the sound field. Sometimes the sound goes away." "The sound goes away " "Yes " she said. "The sound field's slipping. Can you hear me " "Loud and clear " I said. It was the granddaughter of that kooky old scientist who'd given me the unicorn skull. The girl in the pink suit. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami cindeesan 04 48 00h At 4 48 /the happy hour /when clarity visits/ warm darkness/ which soaks my eyes/ I know no sin/ this is the sickness of becoming great/ this vital need for which I would die/ to be loved 4 48 psychosis Sarah Kane Theatre lover 04 50 00h Even the hands of his watch and the hands of all the thirteen clocks were frozen. They had all frozen at the same time on a snowy night seven years before and after that it was always ten minutes to five in the castle. Travelers and mariners would look up at the gloomy castle on the lonely hill and say "Time lies frozen there. It's always Then. It's never Now." The 13 Clocks James Thurber The Golux 04 59 00h The whole place smells like death no matter what the fuck you do. Gately gets to the shelter at 0459.9h and just shuts his head off as if his head had a control switch. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace translated 05 00 00h Just after five o'clock on this chill September morning the fishmonger's cart containing Kirsten and Emilia and such possessions as they have been able to assemble in the time allowed to them is driven out of the gates of Rosenborg Music and Silence Rose Tremain marmite 05 00 00h Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begins Silently closing her bedroom door Leaving the note that she hoped would say more She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief Quietly turning the backdoor key Stepping outside she is free. She's Leaving Home John Lennon Paul McCartney Rose_red 05 00 00h The day came slow till five o'clock Then sprang before the hills Like hindered rubies or the light A sudden musket spills Emily Dickinson 05 00 00h There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals committed or endured or suspected there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse. Things Fleur Adcock cathannabel 05 00 00h Five o'clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January when Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and nearly dressed. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte JLM 05 00 00h The cold eye of the Duke was dazzled by the gleaming of a thousand jewels that sparkled on the table. His ears were filled with chiming as the clocks began to strike. "One " said Hark. "Two " cried Zorn of Zorna. "Three " the Duke's voice almost whispered. 'Four " sighed Saralinda. "Five " the Golux crowed and pointed at the table. "The task is done the terms are met " he said. The 13 Clocks James Thurber The Golux 05 00 00h The Times 05 00 hours is bad and anything with a three in it for example 03 13. Those times between 02 00 and 04 00 are crippling for the next day's decisions as are those times on a Sunday and most times during the ravages of February. Unspeakable times include 04 59 and 01 07—but for some reason 05 58 is not a bad time unlike its cousins 01 58 and 02 58 who are total buggers and always will be. Among the joke-times are anything before midnight the lucid moments just after midnight and those just after making love with sleep approaching. The why-even-bother-times are as follows 06 14 06 27 06 32 and the infrequently-mentioned 06 02. The I-want to-die-now-times list 02 09 04 11 and 03 33. The fact we all go on living regardless must point to something the resilience of the human spirit perhaps equality of opportunity for fathers or even Japanese alarm clock reliability. However my familiarity with 04 19 of late has wrenched the bottom drawer from my desk and scattered the contents blowing across the park to be laughed at by children and dogs. I find this is inducing in me a quite serious indifference to most subjects even my work. Nowhere Better Than This Anthony Wilson exeterpoet8 05 00 00h It was in the township of Dunwich in a large and hardly inhabited farmhouse set against a hillside 4 miles from the village and a mile and a half from any other dwelling that Wilbur Whately was born at 5 a.m. on Sunday 2 February 1913. The date was recalled because it was Candlemas which people in Dunwich curiously observe under another name... The Dunwich Horror H.P. Lovecraft Doc Tourneau 05 04 00h 5.04 a.m. on the substandard clock radio. Because why do people always say the day starts now Really it starts in the middle of the night at a fraction of a second past midnight. The Accidental Ali Smith little_f 05 10 00h "Oh my husband I have done the deed which will relieve you of the wife whom you hate I have taken the poison all of it that was left in the paper packet which was the first that I found. If this is not enough to kill me I have more left in the bottle. Ten minutes past five. "You have just gone after giving me my composing draught. My courage failed me at the sight of you. I thought to myself 'If he look at me kindly I will confess what I have done and let him save my life.' You never looked at me at all. You only looked at the medicine. I let you go without saying a word. The Law and the Lady Wilkie Collins Cindeesan 05 15 00h By the first week of May Ralph was waking up to birdsong at 5 15 a.m. He tried earplugs for a few nights although he doubted from the outset that they would work. It wasn’t the newly returned birds that were waking him up nor the occasional delivery-truck backfire out on Harris Avenue. He had always been the sort of guy who could sleep in the middle of a brass marching bad and he didn’t think that had changed. What had changed was inside his head. Insomnia Stephen King @nightwriter 05 16 00h She could go back to sleep. But typical and ironic she is completely awake. It is completely light outside now you can see for miles. Except there is nothing to see here trees and fields and that kind of thing. 5 16 a.m on the substandard clock radio. She is really awake. The Accidental Ali Smith cindeesan 05 28 00h I pulled into the Aoyama supermarket parking garage at five-twenty-eight. The sky to the east was getting light. I entered the store carrying my bag. Almost no one was in the place. A young clerk in a striped uniform sat reading a magazine a woman of indeterminate age was buying a cartload of cans and instant food. I turned past the liquor display and went straight to the snack bar. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami cindeesan 05 30 00h Gideon has been most unlike Gideon. As Walter Eastman is preoccupied himself he has not had time or more to the point inclination to notice aberrant behaviour. For instance it is half-past five in the summer morning. Young Chase's narrow bachelor bed has evidently been slept in for it is rumpled in that barely disturbed way which can never be counterfeited. His jug's empty and there's grey water in the basin cleanly boy. The window is open admitting the salubrious sea-breeze. He doesn't smoke anyway. What an innocent room it is. An Insular Possession Timothy Mo Raylr 05 30 00h It was by this time half-past five and the sun was on the point of rising but I found the kitchen still dark and silent. The side-passage door was fastened I opened it with as little noise as possible all the yard was quiet but the gates stood wide open and there was a post-chaise with horses ready harnessed and driver seated on the box stationed outside. I approached him and said the gentlemen were coming he nodded then I looked carefully round and listened. The stillness of early morning slumbered everywhere the curtains were yet drawn over the servants' chamber windows little birds were just twittering in the blossom-blanched orchard trees whose boughs dropped like white garlands over the wall enclosing one side of the yard the carriage horses stamped from time to time in their closed stables all else was still. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte elbowroom 05 35 00h I squinted at the clock. 'It says twenty five before six ' I said and rolled away from him. the dice man Luke Rhinehart Miles Teheux 05 46 00h Herbert could feel nothing. He wrote a legal-sounding phrase to the effect that the sentence had been carried out at 5.46 am. adding 'without a snag'. The burial party had cursed him quietly as they'd hacked at the thick roots and tight soil. A Whispered Name William Brodrick Raylr 05.01 00h "Oh yes. His clocks were set at one minute past five four minutes past five and seven minutes past five. That was the combination number of a safe 515457. The safe was concealed behind a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. Inside the safe " continued Poirot with distaste "were the Crown Jewels of the Russian Royal Family." The clocks Agatha Christie stjerome1st 05.04 00h "Oh yes. His clocks were set at one minute past five four minutes past five and seven minutes past five. That was the combination number of a safe 515457. The safe was concealed behind a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. Inside the safe " continued Poirot with distaste "were the Crown Jewels of the Russian Royal Family." The clocks Agatha Christie stjerome1st 05.07 00h "Oh yes. His clocks were set at one minute past five four minutes past five and seven minutes past five. That was the combination number of a safe 515457. The safe was concealed behind a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. Inside the safe " continued Poirot with distaste "were the Crown Jewels of the Russian Royal Family." The clocks Agatha Christie stjerome1st 06 00 00h I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance and had washed my face and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just setting whose rays streamed through the narrow window near my crib. I was to leave Gateshead that day by a coach which passed the lodge gates at six a.m. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte JLM 06 00 00h . ‘What’s the time ’ I ask and telling him so that he knows ‘My mother likes “peace and quiet” to sleep late on Saturday mornings.’ ‘She does does she It’s six o’clock. I couldn’t sleep ’ he says wearily like an afterthought as if it’s what he expects. ‘Why are you up so early ’ ‘I woke up and needed my panda. I can’t find him.’ ‘Where do you think he can be ’ His face changes and he smiles again bending down to look under the table and behind the curtain. But he isn’t clowning or teasing. He’s in earnest. The Saints Patsy Hickman hickman58@aol 06 00 00h Lying awake in my attic room i hear a clock strike six downstairs. It was fairly light and people were beginning to walk up and down the stairs...- i heard the clock strike eight downstairs before i rose and got dressed... I looked up - the clock tower of our saviour's showed ten. Hunger Knut Hamsun miles93 06 00 00h On the 15th of September 1840 about six o'clock in the morning the Ville-de-Montereau ready to depart pouring out great whirls of smoke by the quai Saint-Bernard. L'Education sentimentale Gustave Flaubert Gaber 06 00 00h The ball went on for a long time until six in the morning all were exhausted and wishing they had been in bed for at least three hours but to leave early was like proclaiming the party a failure and offending the host and hostess who had taken such a lot of trouble poor dears. The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa prestodetto 06 13 00h It's 06 13 .........Ma says I ought to be wrapped up in Rug already Old Nick might possibly come. Room Emma Donoghue 06 15 00h It was 6.15 am. Just starting to get light. A small knot of older teenagers were leaning against a nearby wall. They looked as though they had been out all night.Two of the guys stared at us. Their eyes hard and threatening. Girl Missing Sophie McKenzie ella 06 25 00h Still it's your consciousness that's created it. Not somethin' just anyone could do. Others could be wanderin' around forever in who-knows-what contradictory chaos of a world. You're different. You seem t'be the immortal type." "When's the turnover into that world going to take place " asked the chubby girl. The Professor looked at his watch. I looked at my watch. Six-twenty-five. Well past daybreak. Morning papers delivered. "According t'my estimates in another twenty-nine hours and thirty-five minutes " said the Professor. "Plus or minus forty-five minutes. I set it at twelve noon for easy reference. Noon tomorrow. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami cindeesan 06 27 00h At 06.27 hours on 1 January 1975 Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate face down on the steering wheel hoping the judgement would not be too heavy upon him. White Teeth Zadie Smith michelleantoinette 06 27 00h Early in the morning late in the century Cricklewood Broadway. At 0627 hours on January 1 1975 Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer Estate facedown on the steering wheel hoping the judgment would not be too heavy upon him. White Teeth Zadie Smith kwillz 06 27 52h 06 27 52 by the chip in her optic nerve Case had been following her progress through Villa Straylight for over an hour letting the endorphin analogue she'd taken blot out his hangover. Neuromancer William Gibson Proto Plasm 06 30 00h It was six-thirty. When the baby's cry came they could not pick it out and Sam eagerly thrusting his face amongst their ears said "Listen there there that's the new baby." He was red with delight and success. The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead Deanne 06 30 00h It was very cold sitting in the truck and after a while he got out and walked around and flailed at himself with his arms and stamped his boots. Then he got back in the truck. The bar clock said six-thirty...By eight-thirty he’d decided that it that was it would take to make the cab arrive then that’s what he would do and he started the engine. Cities of the Plain Picador pb p 226 Cormac McCarthy Bronte 06 30 00h Daniel and the FBI men listened to the sounds of his mother waking up his father. Daniel still held the door-knob. He was ready to close the door the second he was told to. "What time is it " said his father in a drugged voice. "Oh my God it's six-thirty " his mother said. The Book of Daniel E.L. Doctorow Nicholas Bryant 06 30 00h "Inside now MJ ordered. She pushed the three of us into the hotel room thern shut the soor. I glanced at the clock by the bed. 6.30 am. Why were they waking Mum and Dad up this early Girl Missing Sophie McKenzie ella 06 30 00h Sometimes they were hooded carts sometimes they were just open carts with planks for seats on which sat twelve cloaked and bonneted women six a side squeezed together for the interminable journey. As late as 1914 I knew the carrier of Croydon-cum-Clopton twelve miles from Cambridge his cart started at 6.30 in the morning and got back at about ten at night. Though he was not old he could neither read nor write but he took commissions all along the road - a packet of needles for Mrs. This and a new teapot for Mrs. That - and delivered them all correctly on the way back. Period Piece Gwen Raverat Raylr 06 33 00h Woke 6.33 a.m. Last session with Anderson. He made it plain he's seen enough of me and from now on I'm better alone. To sleep 8 00 These count-downs terrify me. He paused then added Goodbye Eniwetok. The Voices of Time JG Ballard The Golux 06 45 00h He was still hurriedly thinking all this through unable to decide to get out of the bed when the clock struck quarter to seven. There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor" somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. Didn't you want to go somewhere " That gentle voice Gregor was shocked when he heard his own voice answering it could hardly be recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside him there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with it the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort of echo which made them unclear leaving the hearer unsure whether he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full answer and explain everything but in the circumstances contented himself with saying "Yes mother yes thank-you I'm getting up now." Metamorphosis Franz Kafka Gutenberg edition nilpferd 06.30 00h Six-thirty was clearly a preposterous time and he the client obviously hadn't meant it seriously. A civilised six-thirty for twelve noon was almost certainly what he had in mind and if he wanted to cut up rough about it Dirk would have no option but to start handing out some serious statistics. Nobody got murdered before lunch. But nobody. People weren't up to it. You needed a good lunch to get both the blood-sugar and blood-lust levels up. Dirk had the figures to prove it. The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 0615h etc There are countless examples of times in this novel 0615h Abacus paperback edn p 687 0816 train p 688-89 2212.30-40h p.716 2300h p 744 2100 p 755 0500h pp 217 851 0100 p 868 0145h p 78 1640h p 95 0300 p 280 Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace Bronte 07 00 00h I had left directions that I was to be called at seven. ... It was a relief to get out of the room where the night had been so miserable and I needed no second knocking at the door to startle me from my uneasy bed. The Castle battlements arose upon my view at eight o'clock. The little servant happening to be entering the fortress with two hot rolls I passed through the postern and crossed the drawbridge in her company and so came without announcement into the presence of Wemmick as he was making tea for himself and the Aged. An open door afforded a perspective view of the Aged in bed. "Halloa Mr. Pip " said Wemmick. ... "Would you mind toasting this sausage for the Aged P. " Great Expectations Charles Dickens losingtheplot 07 00 00h "Seven o'clock already" he said to himself when the clock struck again "seven o'clock and there's still a fog like this." Metamorphosis Franz Kafka MrsKPBrown 07 02 18h 07 02 18 One and a half hours. 'Case ' she said 'I wanna favour.' Neuromancer William Gibson Proto Plasm 07 05 00h Ryan missed the dawn. He boarded a TWA 747 that left Dulles on time at 7 05 A.M. The sky was overcast and when the aircraft burst through the cloud layer into sunlight Ryan did something he had never done before. For the first time in his life Jack Ryan fell asleep on an airplane. The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy Cindeesan 07 05 00h He shaved and dressed for the day. Then he sat down at the kitchen table with coffee and a cigarette. The children were still in bed. But in five minutes or so he planned to put boxes of cereal on the table and lay out bowls and spoons then go in to wake them for breakfast. He really couldn't believe that the old woman who'd phoned him last night would show up this morning as she'd said she would. He decided he'd wait until five minutes after seven o'clock and then he'd call in take the day off and make every effort in the book to locate someone reliable. He brought the cup of coffee to his lips.It was then that he heard a rumbling sound out in the street. He left his cup and got up from the table to look out the window. A pickup truck had pulled over to the curb in front of his house. The pickup cab shook as the engine idled. Carlyle went to the front door opened it and waved. An old woman waved back and then let herself out of the vehicle. Carlyle saw the driver lean over and disappear under the dash. The truck gasped shook itself once more and fell still. Where I'm Calling From Raymond Carver Cindeesan 07 06 00h " So far so good. There followed a little passage of time when we stood by the duty desk drinking coffee and studiously not mentioning what we were all thinking and hoping that Percy was late that maybe Percy wasn't going to show up at all. Considering the hostile reviews he'd gotten on the way he'd handled the electrocution that seemed at least possible. But Percy subscribed to that old axiom about how you should get right back on the horse that had thrown you because here he came through the door at six minutes past seven resplendent in his blue uniform with his sidearm on one hip and his hickory stick in its ridiculous custom-made holster on the other. The Green Mile Stephen King frustrated artist 07 09 00h In the living room the voice-clock sang Tick-tock seven o'clock time to get up time to get up seven o 'clock as if it were afraid that nobody would. The morning house lay empty. The clock ticked on repeating and repeating its sounds into the emptiness. Seven-nine breakfast time seven-nine There Will Come Soft Rains Ray Bradbury dkb624 07 10 00h A search in Bradshaw informed me that a train left St Pancras at 7.10 which would land me at any Galloway station in the late afternoon. The 39 Steps John Buchan dougiedownunder 07 10 00h "There were many others waiting to execute the same operation so she would have to move fast elbow her way to the front so that she emerged first. The time was 7 10 in the morning. The manoeuvre would start at 7 12. She looked apprehensively at the giant clock at the railway station." ISBN 978-93-80905-06-8 publication date 21 October 2011 The Fourth Passenger Mini Nair RobinM 07 12 00h He taught me that if I had to meet someone for an appointment I must refuse to follow the 'stupid human habit' of arbitrarily choosing a time based on fifteen-minute intervals. 'Never meet people at 7 45 or 6 30 Jasper but pick times like 7 12 and 8 03 ' A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 07 13 00h It was all the more suprising and indeed alarming a little later said Austerlitz when I looked out of the corridor window of my carriage just before the train left at seven-thirteen to find it dawning upon me with perfect certainty that I had seen the pattern of glass and steel roof above the platforms before made up as it was of triangles round arches horizontal and vertical lines and diagonals and in the same half light. Austerlitz W.G. Sebald HannahFreeman 07 15 00h Gough again knocked on Mr and Mrs Kent's bedroom door. This time it was opened - Mary Kent had got out of bed and put on her dressing gown having just checked her husband's watch it was 7.15. A confused conversation ensued in which each woman seemed to assume Saville was with the other. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale Raylr 07 15 00h It was early in April in the year ’83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing fully dressed by the side of my bed. He was a late riser as a rule and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven I blinked up at him in some surprise and perhaps just a little resentment for I was myself regular in my habits. The Adventure of the Speckled Band Arthur Conan Doyle PrivateMcAuslan 07 15 00h At 7 15 A.M. January 25th we started flying northwestward under McTighe's pilotage with ten men seven dogs a sledge a fuel and food supply and other items including the plane's wireless outfit. The atmosphere was clear fairly quiet and relatively mild in temperature and we anticipated very little trouble in reaching the latitude and longitude designated by Lake as the site of his camp. Our apprehensions were over what we might find or fail to find at the end of our journey for silence continued to answer all calls dispatched to the camp. Every incident of that four-and-a-half-hour flight is burned into my recollection because of its crucial position in my life. It marked my loss at the age of fifty-four of all that peace and balance which the normal mind possesses through its accustomed conception of external nature and nature's laws. At the Mountains of Madness H.P. Lovecraft frustrated artist 07 17 00h As of 7 17 A.M. local time on 30 June 1908 Padzhitnoff had been working for nearly a year as a contract employee of the Okhrana receiving five hundred rubles a month a sum which hovered at the exorbitant end of spy-budget outlays for those years. Vintage pb edn p 875 Against the Day T Pynchon Bronte 07 20 00h And this was my timetable when I lived at home with Father and I thought that Mother was dead from a heart attack this was the timetable for a Monday and also it is an approximation . 7.20 a.m. Wake up The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 07 20 00h He who had been a boy very credulous of life was no longer greatly interested in the possible and improbable adventures of each new day. He escaped from reality till the alarm-clock rang at seven-twenty. Babbitt SInclair Lewis werblina 07 25 00h 7.25 a.m. Clean teeth and wash face The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 07 30 00h Precisely at half past seven the station-master came into the traffic office. He weighed almost sixteen stone but women always said that he was incredibly light on his feet when he danced. Closely Observed Trains Bohumil Hrabal AggieH 07 30 00h "At half-past seven the next morning he rang the bell of 21 Ble heim Avenue...." After Rain "Gilbert's Mother" William Trevor lucekel 07 35 00h I looked at my watch. Seven thirty-five. Bare Bones Kathy Reichs LLB 07 40 00h 7.40 a.m. Have breakfast The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 07 44 00h And there I was complaining that all this was just inconvenient Anna castigates herself. The Goth was obviously right. What does it matter really if I'm a bit late for work She voices her thoughts "It's not exactly how you'd choose to go is it You'd rather die flying a kite with your grandchildren or at a great party or something. Not on the seven forty-four." One moment one morning Sarah Rayner stjerome1st 07 45 00h Mr Green left for work at a quarter to eight as he did every morning. He walked down his front steps carrying his empty-looking leatherette briefcase with the noisy silver clasps opened his car door and ducked his head to climb into the driver's seat. A crime in the neighborhood Suzanne Berne Nicholas Bryant 07 51 00h Vimes fished out the Gooseberry as a red-hot cabbage smacked into the road behind him. "Good morning " he said brightly to the surprised imp. "What is the time please " "Er...nine minutes to eight Insert Name Here " said the imp. Thud Terry Pratchett PrivateMcAuslan 07 55 00h at 7.55 this morning the circus ran away to join me there is a lion in the wardrobe and in the pantry the clown goes down on the bareback rider tightrope a poem in Selected Poems 1967-1987 Roger McGough DennisPreston 07 56 00h I sit by the window crunching toast sipping coffee and leafing through the paper in a leisurely way. At last after devouring three slices two cups of coffee and all the Saturday sections I stretch my arms in a big yawn and glance at the clock. I don't believe it. It's only seven fifty-six. The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella cindeesan 08 00 00h Few literary references to time of day are as powerful as Housman's short poem Eight O'Clock He stood and heard the steeple Sprinkle the quarters on the morning town. One two three four to marketplace and people It tossed the down. Strapped noosed nighing his hour He stood and counted them and cursed his luck And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength and struck. Enough said Eight O'Clock A.E. Housman Hackwriter 08 00 00h "But for now it was still eight o'clock and as I walked along the avenue under that brilliant blue sky I was happy my friends as happy as any man who had ever lived." Brooklyn Follies Paul Auster 08 00 00h Mr. Pumblechook and I breakfasted at eight o'clock in the parlour behind the shop while the shopman took his mug of tea and hunch of bread-and-butter on a sack of peas in the front premises. Great Expectations Dickens Bronte 08 00 00h Three days after the quarrel Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky Stiva as he was called in the fashionable world woke up at his usual hour that is at eight o'clock in the morning not in his wife's bedroom but on the leather-covered sofa in his study. Anna Karenina ch. 1 Tolstoy Bronte 08 00 00h And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength and struck. Eight O'Clock A.E. Housman Hackwriter 08 00 00h The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours my brothers and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and as my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with sleepglue I thought I would not go to school . A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess doctakeschair 08 00 00h At eight o'clock on Thursday morning Arthur didn't feel very good. He woke up blearily got up wandered blearily round his room opened a window saw a bulldozer found his slippers and stomped off to the bathroom to wash. Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy Douglas Adams AggieH 08 00 00h So here I'll watch the night and wait To see the morning shine When he will hear the stroke of eight And not the stroke of nine A shropshire Lad A E Housman silentprinter 08 00 00h The next morning I woke up at oh eight oh oh hours my brothers and as I still felt shagged and fagged and fashed and bashed and my glazzies were stuck together real horrorshow with superglue I thought I would not go to school. opening of ch 4 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess Bronte 08 00 00h Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K. for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook who always brought him breakfast at eight o'clock failed to appear on this occasion. The Trial Kafka translated 08 00 00h At 8 o'clock on Thursday morning Arthur didn't feel very good. Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 08 00 00h Mrs. Rochester She did not exist she would not be born till to-morrow some time after eight o'clock a.m. and I would wait to be assured she had come into the world alive before I assigned to her all that property. Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë 08 00 00h 8.00 a.m. Put school clothes on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 08 00 00h ‎"And while she still held my gaze still smiling there came the slow and heavy tolling of the great house-bell eight times and then her smile fell." Fingersmith Sarah Waters TineDS 08 00 00h At eight o’clock a shaft of daylight came to wake us. The thousand facets of the lava on the rock face picked it up as it passed scattering like a shower of sparks. Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne terribleman 08 00 00h Through the curtained windows of the furnished apartment which Mrs. Horace Hignett had rented for her stay in New York rays of golden sunlight peeped in like the foremost spies of some advancing army. It was a fine summer morning. The hands of the Dutch clock in the hall pointed to thirteen minutes past nine those of the ormolu clock in the sitting-room to eleven minutes past ten those of the carriage clock on the bookshelf to fourteen minutes to six. In other words it was exactly eight and Mrs. Hignett acknowledged the fact by moving her head on the pillow opening her eyes and sitting up in bed. She always woke at eight precisely. Three Men and a Maid P.G. Wodehouse frustrated artist 08 00 00h Dressed in sweater anorak and long johns he lay in bed hemmed in on three sides by chunky wooden beams and ate all the salted snacks in the minibar and then all the sugary snacks and when he was woken by reception at eight the following morning to be told that everyone was waiting for him downstairs the wrapper of a Mars bar was still folded in his fist. Solar Ian McEwan JohnDoe 08 00 00h 'Choose your own time' Don Ignacio said. 'Would 8 am on Sunday be convenient ' Voices of the Old Sea Norman Lewis Proto Plasm 08 00 00h It was dated from Rosings at eight o'clock in the morning and was as follows - "Be not alarmed madam on receiving this letter by the apprehension of its containing any repetition of those sentiments or renewal of those offerings which were last night so disgusting to you. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen HannahFreeman 08 00 00h When he opened the windows in the morning the sky was as overcast as it had been but the air seemed fresher and regret set in. Had giving notice not been impetuous and wrongheaded the result of an inconsequential indisposition If he had held off a bit if he had not been so quick to lose heart if he had instead tried to adjust to the air or wait for the weather to improve he would now have been free of stress and strain and looking forward to a morning on the beach like the one the day before. Too late. He must go on wanting what he had wanted yesterday. He dressed and rode down to the ground floor at eight for breakfast. Death in Venice Thomas Mann @alanawhitman 08 00 00h "I'm not crying " Maria said when Carter called from the desert at 8 a.m. "I'm perfectly alright". "You don't sound perfectly alright Play it as is Lays Joan Didion KDMiller 08 03 00h He taught me that if I had to meet someone for an appointment I must refuse to follow the 'stupid human habit' of arbitrarily choosing a time based on fifteen-minute intervals. 'Never meet people at 7 45 or 6 30 Jasper but pick times like 7 12 and 8 03 ' A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 08 05 00h 8.05 a.m. Pack school bag The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 08 10 00h 8.10 a.m. Read book or watch video The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 08 10 00h Cell count down to 400 000. Woke 8 10. To sleep 7 15. Appear to have lost my watch without realising it had to drive into town to buy another. The Voices of Time JG Ballard The Golux 08 11 00h 'Care for a turn on the engine ' he called to the doxies and pointed up at the footplate. They laughed but voted not to climbing up with their bathtub into one of the rattlers instead. They both had very fetching hats with one flower apiece but the prettiness of their faces made you think it was more. For some reason they both wore white rosettes pinned to their dresses. I looked again at the clock eight-eleven. The Blackpool Highflyer Andrew Martin DennisPreston 08 15 00h It was in the winter when this happened very near the shortest day and a week of fog into the bargain so the fact that it was still very dark when George woke in the morning was no guide to him as to the time. He reached up and hauled down his watch. It was a quarter-past eight. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K Jerome JLM 08 16 00h I walk through the fruit trees toward a huge square brown patch of earth with vegetation growing in serried rows. These must be the vegetables. I prod one of them cautiously with my foot. It could be a cabbage or a lettuce. Or the leaves of something growing underground maybe. To be honest it could be an alien. I have no idea. I sit down on a mossy wooden bench and look at a nearby bush covered in white flowers. Mm. Pretty. Now what What do people do in their gardens I feel I should have something to read. Or someone to call. My fingers are itching to move. I look at my watch. Still only eight sixteen. Oh God. The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella cindeesan 08 17 00h Come on I can't give up yet. I'll just sit here for a bit and enjoy the peace. I lean back and watch a little speckled bird pecking the ground nearby for a while. Then I look at my watch again eight seventeen. I can't do this. The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella cindeesan 08 20 00h When the typewriters happen to pause 8 20 and other mythical hours and there are no flights of American bombers in the sky and the motor traffic's not too heavy in Oxford Street you can hear winter birds cheeping outside busy at the feeders the girls have put up. Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon translated 08 23 00h "That orchid-collector was only thirty-six twenty years younger than myself when he died. And he had been married twice and divorced once he had had malarial fever four times and once he broke his thigh. He killed a Malay once and once he was wounded by a poisoned dart. And in the end he was killed by jungle-leeches. It must have all been very troublesome but then it must have been very interesting you know except perhaps the leeches." "I am sure it was not good for him " said the lady with conviction. "Perhaps not." And then Wedderburn looked at his watch. "Twenty-three minutes past eight. I am going up by the quarter to twelve train so that there is plenty of time. I think I shall wear my alpaca jacket it is quite warm enough and my grey felt hat and brown shoes. I suppose " He glanced out of the window at the serene sky and sunlit garden and then nervously at his cousin's face. "I think you had better take an umbrella if you are going to London " she said in a voice that admitted of no denial. "There's all between here and the station coming back." When he returned he was in a state of mild excitement. He had made a purchase. It was rare that he could make up his mind quickly enough to buy but this time he had done so. The flowering of the strange orchid H.G. Wells frustrated artist 08 29 00h At 8.29 I punched the front doorbell in Elgin Crescent. It was opened by a small oriental woman in a white apron. She showed me into a large empty sitting room with an open fire and a couple of huge oil paintings. One was of an old bloke in Gainsborough style a Stellings or Clarissa ancestor perhaps and the other a more or less random splosh-and-twirl in grey and tangerine that seemed designed to trigger a sequence of sophomore thoughts about 'art'. Engleby Sebastian Faulks Raylr 08 30 00h 'The lecture was to be given tomorrow and it was now almost eight-thirty.' A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole traverso1685 08 30 00h I hadn't heard a car and I didn't notice the tracks in the snow until I came off the trail and out on to the road but then again I wasn't expecting a car not at that time of day. It can't be later than eight. I check my watch and it says eight-thirty. Oh. My translation Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson AJ Jansson 08 30 00h At half past eight Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone JK Rowling kbergen 08 30 00h When he woke at eight-thirty he was alone in the bedroom. He put on his dressing gown and put in his hearing aid and went into the living room. Deaf Sentence David Lodge Traverso 1685 08 30 00h 10 00.00h 19 30 00h On July 25th 8 30 a.m. the bitch Novaya dies whelping. At 10 o'clock she is lowered into her cool grave at 7 30 that same evening we see our first floes and greet them wishing they were the last. The Terrors of Ice and Darkness Christoph Ransmayr SimKle 08 32 00h 8.32 a.m. Catch bus to school The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 08 32 14h 'Does anybody know the time a little more exactly is what I'm wondering Don since Day doesn't.' Gately checks his cheap digital head still hung over the sofa's arm. 'I got 0832 14 15 16 Randy.' ''ks a lot D.G. man.' Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace translated 08 35 00h It was thirty-five minutes past eight by the big clock of the central building when Mathieu crossed the yard towards the office which he occupied as chief designer. For eight years he had been employed at the works where after a brilliant and special course of study he had made his beginning as assistant draughtsman when but nineteen years old receiving at that time a salary of one hundred francs a month. Fruitfulness Emile Zola Cindeesan 08 40 00h At this moment the clock indicated 8.40. 'Five minutes more ' said Andrew Stuart. The five friends looked at each other. One may surmise that their heart-beats were slightly accelereted for even for bold gamblers the stake was a large one.' Around the world in eighty days Jules Verne AggieH 08 40 00h It was when I stood before her avoiding her eyes that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine. Great Expectations Charles Dickens FieraW 08 43 00h 8.43 a.m. Go past tropical fish shop The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 08 43 00h "You understand this tape recorder is on " "Uh huh" "And it's Wednesday May 15 at eight forty-three in the mornin'." "If you say so" A Time to Kill John Grisham DennisPreston 08 47 00h "Just on my way to the cottage. It's er ..8.47. Bit misty on the roads....." Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams DennisPreston 08 50 00h Punctually at ten minutes to nine a quarter hour after early mass the boy stood in his Sunday uniform outside his father's door. The Radetzky March Joseph Roth AggieH 08 50 00h It was 8 50 in the morning and Bernie and I were alone on an Astoria side street not far from a sandwich shop that sold a sopressatta sub called "The Bypass". I used to eat that sandwich weekly wash it down with espresso soda smoke a cigarette go for a jog. Now I was too near the joke to order the sandwich and my son's preschool in the throes of doctrinal schism. The Ask Sam Lipsyte 08 51 00h 8.51 a.m. Arrive at school The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 08 52 00h Message one. Tuesday 8 52 A.M. Is anybody there Hello Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer kwillz 08 55 00h At five minutes to nine Jacques in his gray butler's livery came down the stairs and said "Young master your Herr Papá is coming." The Radetzky March Joseph Roth AggieH 08 55 00h George pulled out his watch and looked at it it was five minutes to nine Three Men in a Boat Jerome K Jerome JLM 08.26 00h It exploded much later than intended probably a good twelve hours later at twenty-six minutes past eight on Monday morning. Several defunct wristwatches the property of victims confirmed the time. As with its predecessors over the last few months there had been no warning. But then none had been intended. The Düsseldorf car-bombing of a visiting Israeli arms-procurement official had been preceded by no warning neither had the book bomb sent to the organisers of an Orthodox Jewish congress in Antwerp which blew up the honorary secretary and burnt her assistant to death. Neither had the dustbin bomb outside an Israeli bank in Zürich which maimed two passers-by. Only the Stockholm bomb had a warning and that turned out to be a completely different group not part of the series at all. "The Little drummer Girl" John Le Carre frustrated artist 08.50 00h At ten to nine the clerks began to arrive.When they had hung up their coats and hates they came to the fireplace and stood warming themselves. If there was no fire they stood there all the same The Chestnut Tree short Story V.S. Pritchett jrsd 09 00 00h To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. The Waste Land T S Eliot silentprinter 09 00 00h 'I could never get all the way down there before nine o'clock.' A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole traverso1685 09 00 00h 'Look. Ignatius. I'm beat. I've been on the road since nine o'clock yesterday morning.' A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole traverso1685 09 00 00h 'Look. Ignatius. I'm beat. I've been on the road since nine o'clock yesterday morning.' A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole traverso1685 09 00 00h 9am A fly buzzed the wall clock began to strike. After the nine golden strokes faded the district captain began. "How is Herr Colonel Marek " "Thank you Papá he's fine." "Still weak in geometry " "Thank you Papá a little better." "Read any books " "Yessir Papá." The Radetzky March Joseph Roth AggieH 09 00 00h 14 June 9 00 am woke up A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 00 00h Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9.00am telling lies to one another far from God. Jesus' Son Denis Johnson philipmatthews 09 00 00h "At nine o'clock one morning late in July Gatsby's gorgeous car lurched up the rocky drive to my door and gave out a burst of melody from its three noted horn." The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Sarah Churchwell 09 00 00h At nine o'clock one morning late in July Gatsby's gorgeous car lurched up the rocky drive to my door and gave out a burst of melody from its three-noted horn The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 09 00 00h 9.00 a.m. School assembly The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 09 00 00h Unreal City Under the brown fog of a winter dawn A crowd flowed over London Bridge so many I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs short and infrequent were exhaled And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. The Waste Land T S Eliot rimbaud60 09 00 00h "On the third morning after their arrival just as all the clocks in the city were striking nine individually and somewhere about nine hundred and ninety-nine collectively Sam was taking the air in George Yard when a queer sort of fresh painted vehicle drove up out of which there jumped with great agility throwing the reins to a stout man who sat beside him a queer sort of gentleman who seemed made for the vehicle and the vehicle for him." The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens robert_dixie 09 00 00h As nine o' clock was left behind the preposterousness of the delay overwhelmed me and I went in a kind of temper to the owner and said that I thought he should sign on another cook and weigh spars and be off. A Single Pebble John Hershey Proto Plasm 09 00 00h He Time won't stand beating. Now if you only kept on good terms with him he'd do almost anything you liked with the clock. For instance suppose it were nine o'clock in the morning just time to begin lessons you'd only have to whisper a hint to Time and round goes the clock in a twinkling Half-past one time for dinner Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Tammy Ho 09 00 00h It was around nine o'clock that I crossed the border into Cornwall. This was at least three hours before the rain began and the clouds were still all of a brilliant white. In fact many of the sights that greeted me this morning were among the most charming I have so far encountered. It was unfortunate then that I could not for much of the time give to them the attention they warranted for one may as well declare it one was in a condition of some preoccupation with the thought that - barring some unseen complication - one would be meeting Miss Kenton again before the day's end. The Remains of the Day Kazuo Ishiguro jo_eyre 09 00 00h Opening his window Aschenbach thought he could smell the foul stench of the lagoon. A sudden despondency came over him. He considered leaving then and there. Once years before after weeks of a beautiful spring he had been visited by this sort of weather and it so affected his health he had been obliged to flee. Was not the same listless fever setting in The pressure in the temples the heavy eyelids Changing hotels again would be a nuisance but if the wind failed to shift he could not possibly remain here. To be on the safe side he did not unpack everything. At nine he went to breakfast in the specially designated buffet between the lobby and the dining room. Death in Venice Thomas Mann @alanawhitman 09 00 00h The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse In half an hour she promised to return. Perchance she cannot meet him that's not so. Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Janelyn 09 00 00h He was at breakfast at nine and for the twentieth time consulted his "Bradshaw " to see at what earliest hour Dr. Grantly could arrive from Barchester. The Warden Anthony Trollope elbowroom 09 01 00h 9 01 am lay in bed staring at ceiling A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 02 0h0 9 02 am lay in bed staring at ceiling A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 03 00h 9 03 am lay in bed staring at ceiling A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 04 00h 9 04 am lay in bed staring at ceiling A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 04 00h In the light of a narrow-beam lantern Pierce checked his watch. It was 9.04. At 9.11 they swung the grating door open and entered the wine cellar proper. The Great Train Robbery Michael Crichton DennisPreston 09 05 00h 9 05 am lay in bed staring at ceiling A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 05 00h The tour of the office doesn't take that long. In fact we're pretty much done by 9 05 a.m. Ed looks at everything twice and says it's all great and gives me a list of contacts who might be helpful then has to leave for his own office. And then about an hour later just as I'm elbow deep in rose stems and water and a hastily bought vase Mum and Dad arrive also bearing flowers and a bottle of champagne and a new box of paper clips which is Dad's little joke. And even though I've only just showed the place to Ed and even though it's just a room with a window and a pin board and two doors and two desks... I can't help feeling a buzz as I lead them around. It's mine. My space. My company. Twenties Girl Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 09 05 00h Kaldren pursues me like luminescent shadow. He has chalked up on the gateway '96 688 365 498 702'. Should confuse the mail man. Woke 9 05. To sleep 6 36. The Voices of Time JG Ballard The Golux 09 06 00h 9 06 am lay in bed staring at ceiling A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 07 00h 9 07 am lay in bed staring at ceiling A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 08 00h 9 08 am rolled over onto left side A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 09 00h 9 09 am lay in bed staring at wall A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 10 00h 9 10 am lay in bed staring at wall A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 11 00h 9 11 am lay in bed staring at wall A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 12 00h 9 12 am lay in bed staring at wall A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 13 00h 9 13 am lay in bed staring at wall A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 13 00h She tucked the phone in the crook of her neck and thumbed hurriedly through her pink messages. Dr. Provetto at 9 13 A.M. Mistaken Identity Lisas Scottoline thecommonreader 09 14 00h 9 14 am lay in bed staring at wall A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 15 00h 9 15 am doubled over pillow sat up to see out window A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 15 00h 9.15 a.m. First morning class The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 09 15 00h "Great " Jones commented. "I've never seen it do that before. That's all right. Okay." Jones pulled a handful of pencils from his back pocket. "Now I got the contact first at 0915 or so and the bearing was about two-six-nine." He set a pencil down eraser at Dallas' position point directed west towards the target. "Then at 0930 it was bearing a two-six-zero. At 0948 it was two-five-zero. There's some error built into these Cap'n. It was a tough signal to lock in on but the errors should average out. Right about then we got all this other activity and I had to go after them but I came back to it about 1000 and the bearing was two-four-two." Jones set down another pencil on the due-east line traced when the Dallas had moved away from the Icelandic coast. "At 1015 it was two-three-four and at 1030 it was two-two-seven. These last two are shaky sir. The signal was real faint and I didn't have a very good lock on it." Jones looked up. He appeared nervous. The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy Cindeesan 09 16 00h 9 16 am sat in bed staring out window A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 17 00h 9 17 am sat in bed staring out window A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 18 00h 9 18 am sat in bed staring out window A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 19 00h 9 19 am sat in bed staring out window A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 09 20 00h The following morning at 9.20 Mr Cribbage straightened his greasy old tie combed his Hitler moustache and arranged the few strands of his hair across his bald patch. From 'Red Dog and the Dreaded Cribbages' chapter p 99 hardback edn Red Dog Louis de Bernieres Bronte 09 20 00h 'll compromise by saying that I left home at eight and spent an hour travelling to a nine o'clock appointment. Twenty minutes later is nine-twenty. Girl Interrupted Susanna Kaysen 09 20 00h At twenty minutes past nine the Duke of Dunstable who had dined off a tray in his room was still there waiting for his coffee and liqueur. Uncle Fred in the Springtime P.G. Wodehouse mountainscribe 09 25 00h A man I would cross the street to avoid at nine o'clock - by nine twenty-five I wanted to fuck him until he wept. My legs trembled with it. My voice floated out of my mouth when I opened it to speak. The glass wall of the meeting room was huge and suddenly too transparent. The Forgotten Waltz Anne Enright 09 28 00h He entered No. 10 for the first time he who had sat on the Government benches for eight years and who had known the Prime Minister from youth up. "This clock right " he asked the butler in the hall. "Yes sir." The clock showed twenty-eight minutes past nine. "The clocks here have to be right sir " the butler added with pride and a respectful humour on the stairs. Lord Raingo Arnold Bennett 09 30 00h The body came in at nine-thirty this morning. One of Holding's men went to the house and collected it. There was nothing particularly unusual about the death. The man had had a fear of hospitals and had died at home being cared for more than adequately by his devoted wife. Trumpet Jackie Kay msslryder 09 30 00h Up the welcomingly warm morning hill we trudge side by each bound finally for the Hall of Fame. It's 9.30 and time is in fact a-wastin'. Independence Day Richard Ford Bronte 09 30 00h he looked at his watch it was half-past nine A watcher by the dead Ambrose Bierce 09 30 00h It was nine-thirty. In another ten minutes she would turn off the heat then it would take a while for the water to cool. In the meantime there was nothing to do but wait. “Have you thought it through April ” Never undertake to do a thing until you’ve –“ But she needed no more advice and no more instruction. She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known what neither her parents not Aunt Claire not Frank nor anyone else had ever had to teach her that if you wanted to do something absolutely honest something true it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone. Revolutionary Road Richard Yates ginnymyhedgehog 09 32 00h Sandy barely made the nine-thirty-two and found a seat in no-smoking. She'd been looking forward to this visit with Lisbeth. They hadn't seen each other in months not since January when Sandy had returned from Jamaica. And on that day Sandy was sporting a full-blown herpes virus on her lower lip. Wifey Judy Blume martinet 09 36 00h I grab a pen and the pad of paper by the phone and start scribbling a list for the day. I have an image of myself moving smoothly from task to task brush in one hand duster in the other bringing order to everything. Like Mary Poppins. 9 30-9 36 Make Geigers' bed 9 36-9 42 Take laundry out of machine and put in dryer 9 42-10 00 Clean bathrooms I get to the end and read it over with a fresh surge of optimism. At this rate I should be done easily by lunchtime. 9 36 Fuck. I cannot make this bed. Why won't this sheet lie flat 9 42 And why do they make mattresses so heavy The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 09 40 00h Must have the phone disconnected. Some contractor keeps calling me up about payment for 50 bags of cement he claims I collected ten days ago. Says he helped me load them onto a truck himself. I did drive Whitby's pick-up into town but only to get some lead screening. What does he think I'd do with all that cement Just the sort of irritating thing you don't expect to hang over your final exit. Moral don't try too hard to forget Eniwetok. Woke 9 40. To sleep 4 15. The Voices of Time JG Ballard The Golux 09 45 00h 9.15 9.30 9.45 10 Bond felt the excitement ball up inside him like cat's fur. On Her Majesty's Secret Service Ian Fleming DennisPreston 09 50 00h Ten minutes to ten. "I had just time to hide the bottle after the nurse had left me when you came into my room."I had another moment of weakness when I saw you. I determined to give myself a last chance of life. That is to say I determined to offer you a last opportunity of treating me kindly. I asked you to get me a cup of tea. If in paying me this little attention you only encouraged me by one fond word or one fond look I resolved not to take the second dose of poison. "You obeyed my wishes but you were not kind. You gave me my tea Eustace as if you were giving a drink to your dog. And then you wondered in a languid way thinking I suppose of Mrs. Beauly all the time at my dropping the cup in handing it back to you. I really could not help it my hand would tremble. In my place your hand might have trembled too with the arsenic under the bedclothes. You politely hoped before you went away that the tea would do me good and oh God you could not even look at me when you said that You looked at the broken bits of the tea-cup."The instant you were out of the room I took the poison a double dose this time. The Law and the Lady Wilkie Collins Cindeesan 09 53 00h Miss Pettigrew went to the bus-stop to await a bus. She could not afford the fare but she could still less afford to lose a possible situation by being late. The bus deposited her about five minutes' walk from Onslow Mansions an at seven minutes to ten precisely she was outside her destination. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Winifred Watson A Reader 09 54 00h 9 54 This is sheer torture. My arms have never ached so much in my entire life. The blankets weigh a ton and the sheets won't go straight and I have no idea how to do the wretched corners. How do chambermaids do it The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 09 55 00h At five to ten I'm ready in the hall. Nathaniel's mother's house is nearby but apparently tricky to find so the plan is to meet here and he'll walk me over. I check my reflection in the hall mirror and wince. The streak of bleach in my hair is as obvious as ever. Am I really going out in public like this I push my hair backward and forward a few times – but I can't hide it. Maybe I could walk along with my hand carelessly positioned at my head as if I'm thinking hard. I attempt a few casual pensive poses in the mirror. “Is your head all right ” I swivel round in shock to see Nathaniel at the open door wearing a plaid shirt and jeans. “Er . . . fine ” I say my hand still glued to my head. “I was just . . . “ Oh there's no point. I bring my hand down from my hair and Nathaniel regards the streak for a moment. “It looks nice ” he says. “Like a badger.” The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 09.35 00h Nine-thirty-five. He really must be gone. The bird is no longer feeding but sitting at the apex of a curl of razor wire. The Memory of Love Aminatta Forna 1 00 00h Hickory Dickory Dock The mouse ran up the clock The clock struck one donggggg The mouse ran down Hickory Dickory Dock Traditional nursery rhyme anon k1 10 00 00h 'At about ten o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.' Of Mice And Men John Steinbeck RobertLock 10 00 00h "The trial was irretrievably over everything that could be said had been said but he had never doubted he would lose. The written verdict was handed down at 10 00 on Friday moning and all that remained was a summing-up from the reporters waiting in the corridor outside the district court." The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson RachelG 10 00 00h The pundit sighed. 'Only a fool like me would leave his door open when a riot can occur at any moment and only a fool like me would say yes to you ' he said. 'What time ' Just his head was sticking out of the partially opened door. The money from blessing the ice-cream factory must have dulled his desire for work I thought. 'Ten.' 'Ten-thirty.' Without another word he closed the door. An Obedient Father Akhil Sharma AggieH 10 00 00h On the tenth day of September Eighteen hundred Twenty Three Wednesday morn and I remember Ten on the clock the Hour to be" Notebook Coleridge goes to the Quantock Hill Samuel Taylor Coleridge 10 00 00h The written verdict was handed down at 10 00 on Friday morning and allthat remained was a summing up from the reporters waiting in the corridor outside the district court. The girl with the dragon tattoo Stieg Larsson 10 00 00h didn’t sleep because it was only around ten o’clock when I woke up. Catcher in the Rye J.D Salinger 10 00 00h Monday 30 March 1668 Up betimes and so to the office there to do business till about 10 o’clock The Diary of Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys KnitOne 10 00 00h " . . .the clock ticked louder and louder until there was a terrific explosion right in her ear. Orlando leapt as if she had been violently struck on the head. Ten times she was struck" Orlando Virginia Woolf eekageek 10 00 00h According to military records no US bombers or any other kind of aircraft were flying over that region at the time that is around 10 am on November 7 1944. Kafka on the shore Haruki Murakami soniakan 10 00 00h King Richard Well but what's o'clock Buckingham Upon the stroke of ten. Richard III William Shakespeare Irv 10 00 00h The Saturday immediately preceding the examinations was a very busy day for Kennedy. At ten o' clock he was entering Willey's room the latter had given him a key and left the room vacant by previous arrangement - in fact he had taken Olivia on another house hunting trip. The Greeks have a word for it Barry Unsworth Proto Plasm 10 00 00h I went to bed and the next thing I knew I was awake again and it was getting on for ten o' clock in the morning. Ring ring said the telephone ring ring. The Medusa Frequency Russell Hoban Proto Plasm 10 00 00h ––In assaying to put on his regimental coat and waistcoat my uncle Toby found the same objection in his wig ––so that went off too ––So that with one thing and what with another as always falls out when a man is in the most haste ––'twas ten o'clock which was half an hour later than his usual time before my uncle Toby sallied out. Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne Eugenius 10 03 00h It's 10.03 according to his watch and he is travelling down through the Scottish highlands to Inverness tired and ever-so-slightly anxious in case he falls asleep between now and when the train reaches the station and misses his cue to say to Alice Drew and Aleesha 'OK this is Inverness let's move it.' “Vanilla-Bright like Eminem” from The Farenheit Twins Michel Faber DennisPreston 10 05 00h We both watch as a pair of swans sail regally under the little bridge. Then I glance at my watch. It's already five past ten. “We should get going ” I say with a little start. Your mother will be waiting.” “There's no rush ” Nathaniel calls as I hasten down the other side of the bridge. “We've got all day.” He lopes down the bridge. “It's OK. You can slow down.” I try to match his relaxed pace. But I'm not used to this easy rhythm. I'm used to striding along crowded pavements fighting my way pushing and elbowing. The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 10 10 00h 10 10 Shot is fired. The Hollow Man John Dickson Carr Machiel 10 12 00h “Now have you got that ” Trish steps back from the fireplace. “Let's see. Which way do the china dogs go ” She lifts an arm to block my view of the mantelpiece. I don't believe it. She's testing me. “The china dogs ” she prompts. “Which way ” Oh God I cannot resist this. “Er...” I ponder hard for a few moments. “They face . . . out ” “Each other ” Trish cries in exasperation. “They face each other ” “Oh right ” I say apologetically. “Yes. Sorry. I've got that now.” Trish has closed her eyes and is holding two fingers to her forehead as though the stress of stupid help is too much to bear. “Never mind she says at last. “We'll try again tomorrow.” “I'll take the coffee tray out ” I suggest humbly. As I pick it up I glance again at my watch. Ten twelve. I wonder if they've started the meeting. The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella cindeesan 10 14 00h “Okay. Ten fourteen Mrs. Narada reports that her cat has been attacked by a large dog. Now I send all the boys out looking but they don't find anything until eleven. Then one of them calls in that a big dog has just bitten holes in the tires on his golf cart and run off. Eleven thirty Dr. Epstein makes his first lost-nap call dog howling. Eleven thirty-five Mrs. Norcross is putting the kids out on the deck for some burgers when a big dog jumps over the rail eats the burgers growls at the kids runs off. First mention of lawsuit.” Coyote Blue Christopher Moore Cindeesan 10 15 00h At 10.15 Arlena departed from her rondezvous a minute or two later Patrick Redfern came down and registered surprise annoyance etc. Christine's task was easy enough. Keeping her own watch concealed she asked she asked Linda at twenty-five past eleven what time it was. Linda looked at her watch and replied that it was a quarter to twelve. Evil under the sun Agatha Christie 10 16 00h 10 16 At last. Forty minutes of hard work and I have made precisely one bed. I'm way behind. But never mind. Just keep moving. Laundry next. The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 10 17 00h "By the bye " said the first "I was able this morning to telegraph the very words of the order to my cousin at seventeen minutes past ten." "And I sent it to the Daily Telegraph at thirteen minutes past ten." "Bravo Mr. Blount " "Very good M. Jolivet." "I will try and match that " "It will be difficult." "I can try however." So saying the French correspondent familiarly saluted the Englishman who bowed stiffly. The governor's proclamation did not concern these two news-hunters as they were neither Russians nor foreigners of Asiatic origin. However being urged by the same instinct they had left Nijni-Novgorod together. It was natural that they should take the same means of transport and that they should follow the same route to the Siberian steppes. Traveling companions whether enemies or friends they had a week to pass together before "the hunt would be open." And then success to the most expert Alcide Jolivet had made the first advances and Harry Blount had accepted them though he had done so coldly. Michel Strogoff the courier of the Tsar Jules Verne frustrated artist 10 18 00h I know that it was 10 18 when I got home because I look at my watch a lot. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer kwillz 10 20 00h He drained his third cup of watery tea to the dregs and set to chewing the crusts of fried bread that were scattered near him staring into the dark pool of the jar. The yellow dripping had been scooped out like a boghole and the pool under it brought back to his memory the dark turf-coloured water of the bath in Clongowes. The box of pawn tickets at his elbow had just been rifled and he took up idly one after another in his greasy fingers the blue and white dockets scrawled and sanded and creased and bearing the name of the pledger as Daly or MacEvoy. 1 Pair Buskins. 1 D. Coat. 3 Articles and White. 1 Man's Pants. Then he put them aside and gazed thoughtfully at the lid of the box speckled with louse marks and asked vaguely How much is the clock fast now His mother straightened the battered alarm clock that was lying on its side in the middle of the mantelpiece until its dial showed a quarter to twelve and then laid it once more on its side. An hour and twenty-five minutes she said. The right time now is twenty past ten. The dear knows you might try to be in time for your lectures. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce Cindeesan 10 22 27h ...before I had time to figure out what to do or even what to think or feel the phone started ringing. It was 10 22 27. I looked at the caller ID and saw that it was him. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer kwillz 10 25 00h One meal is enough now topped up with a glucose shot. Sleep is still 'black' completely unrefreshing. Last night I took a 16 mm. film of the first three hours screened it this morning at the lab. The first true-horror movie. I looked like a half-animated corpse. Woke 10 25. To sleep 3 45. The Voices of Time JG Ballard The Golux 10 26 00h 10 26 No. Please no. I can hardly bear to look. It's a total disaster. Everything in the washing machine has gone pink. Every single thing. What happened With trembling fingers I pick out a damp cashmere cardigan. It was a cream when I put it in. It's now a sickly shade of candy floss. I knew K3 was bad news. I knew it - The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 10 27 00h She is on holiday in Norfolk. The substandard clock radio says 10 27 a.m. The noise is Katrina the Cleaner thumping the hoover against the skirting boards and the bedroom doors. Her hand is asleep. It is still hooked through the handstrap of the camera. She unhooks it and shakes it to get the blood back into it. She puts her feet on top of her trainers and slides them across the substandard carpet. It has the bare naked feet of who knows how many hundreds of dead or old people on it. The Accidental Ali Smith cindeesan 10 30 00h At ten-thirty I'm cleaned up shaved and dressed in my Easter best - a two-piece seersucker Palm Beach I've had since college. The Sportswriter ch 9 Richard Ford Bronte 10 30 00h 10.30 a.m. Break The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 10 38 00h There must be a solution there must be. Frantically I scan the cans of products stacked on the shelves. Stain Away. Vanish. There has to be a remedy. . . . I just need to think. . . . 10 38 OK I have the answer. It may not totally work—but it's my best shot. The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 10 45 00h They reached King's Cross at a quarter to eleven. Mr Weasley dashed across the road to get trolleys for their trunks and they all hurried into the station. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J.K.Rowling mistysolitude 10 50 00h 10.50 a.m. Art class with Mrs Peters The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 10 50 00h As he walked back to the flight office airmen were forming a line to await the arrival of the NAAFI van with morning tea and cakes. Lambert looked at his watch it was ten to eleven. Bomber Len Deighton Mr Thing 10 53 00h He begins to make a record of our observations.'10.53 hrs ' he writes as we crouch at the top of the stairs listening to his mother in the hall below. Spies Michael Frayn DennisPreston 10 53 00h I gaze and gaze again at that face which seems to me both strange and familiar said Austerlitz I run the tape back repeatedly looking at the time indicator in the top left-hand corner of the screen where the figures covering part of her forehead show the minutes and seconds from 10 53 to 10 57 while the hundredths of a second flash by so fast that you cannot read and capture them. Austerlitz W.G. Sebald 10 55 00h The clock was still saying five minutes to eleven when pooh and Piglet set out their way half an hour later. The House at Pooh Corner AA Milne 10 57 00h I gaze and gaze again at that face which seems to me both strange and familiar said Austerlitz I run the tape back repeatedly looking at the time indicator in the top left-hand corner of the screen where the figures covering part of her forehead show the minutes and seconds from 10 53 to 10 57 while the hundredths of a second flash by so fast that you cannot read and capture them. Austerlitz W.G. Sebald 10 59 00h Harry grunted in his sleep and his face slid down the window an inch or so making his glasses still more lopsided but he did not wake up. An alarm clock repaired by Harry several years ago ticked loudly on the sill showing one minute to eleven. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince JK Rowling Habibti 10.30 00h according to the clock on the wall it is barely ten thirty. The Hours michael cunningham candide 11 00 00h It was about eleven o'clock in the morning mid October with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit with dark blue shirt tie and display handkerchief black brogues black wool socks with dark blue clocks on them. I was neat clean shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four millon dollars. The big sleep Raymond Chandler nilpferd 11 00 00h Quiet as I am I become at Eleven o'Clock in the Morning on every day of the week save Sunday a raving ranting maniac a dangerous lunatic panting with insane desires to do not only myself but other people a mischief and possessed less by hallucination than by rabies. Twice Around the Clock George Augustus Sala quoted in Kevin Jackson's Book of Hours 11 00 00h "By 11 o'clock I have finished the first chapter of Mr Y. The winter sun is peeping meekly through the thin curtains and I decide to get up" The End of Mr Y Scarlett Thomas RufusDeRella 11 00 00h At eleven o'clock in the morning large flakes had appeared from a colourless sky and invaded the fields gardens and lawns of Romerike like an armada from outer space. The Snowman Jo Nesbo 11 00 00h We got to Waterloo at eleven and asked where the eleven-five started from. Of course nobody knew nobody at Waterloo ever does know where a train is going to start from or where a train when it does start is going to or anything about it. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K Jerome JLM 11 00 00h By morning my meticulousness has faded. The sleeping pill I took has had no effect I feel sandpapered and shaky and in order to hang on I slide into domestic obsessing. I lock up the house and am compelled to unlock it to double check that I have turned off the iron and run the washing machine. I then have to wait for the delay on the burglar alarm and this leaves me time to think - not a good idea right now. I might remember for instance that I am about to spend two hours with people I have never met doing something I have never done. What kind of vanity is this What will people say My sister is terrified that I might write and tell all the family secrets. Why do I feel like a rebel like an iconoclast I am only trying to do a writing class what is wrong with that I keep telling myself that once in the car I will be fine I can listen to Radio Four Woman’s Hour and that will take me till eleven o’clock when the class starts. I have given myself an hour and a half to drive from Notting Hill Gate to Tavistock Square. The Saints patsy hickman hickman58@aol 11 00 00h We got to Waterloo at eleven and asked where the eleven-five started from.Of course nobody knew nobody at Waterloo ever does know where a train is going to start from or where a train when it does start is going to or anything about it. Three Men in a Boat Jerome K Jerome Proto Plasm 11 00 00h As they looked the whole world became perfectly silent and a flight of gulls crossed the sky first one gull leading then another and in this extraordinary silence and peace in this pallor in this purity bells struck eleven times the sound fading up there among the gulls. Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf Patricia 11 00 00h At eleven o'clock the phone rang and still the figure did not respond any more than it had responded when the phone had rung at twenty-five to seven and again for ten minutes continuously starting at five to seven after which it had settled into a long and significant silence disturbed only by the braying of police sirens in a nearby street at around nine o'clock the delivery of a large eighteenth-century dual manual harpsichord at around nine-fifteen and the collection of same by bailiffs at a little after ten. The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 11 00 00h "He was rather a long time and I began to feel muffled weighed down by thick stuffs and silence. I thought He'll never come back and when he did his figure seemed to come at me from very far away dream-like and dwindled making his way back along a tunnel...I dare say it was champagne at eleven in the morning. The Weather in the Streets Rosamond Lehmann Lehmannfan 11 03 00h "What makes you think it's for real " "Just a hunch really. He sounded for real. Sometimes you can just tell about people"-he smiled-"even if you're a dull old WASP." "I think it's a setup." "Why " "I just do. Why would someone from the government want to help you " "Good question. Guess I'll find out." She went back into the kitchen."What time are you meeting him " she called out. "Eleven oh-three " he said. "That made me think he's for real. Military and intelligence types set precise appointment times to eliminate confusion and ambiguity. Nothing ambiguous about eleven oh-three." Little Green Men Christopher Buckley Cindeesan 11 05 00h July 3 5 3/4 hours. Little done today. Deepening lethargy dragged myself over to the lab nearly left the road twice. Concentrated enough to feed the zoo and get the log up to date. Read through the operating manuals Whitby left for the last time decided on a delivery rate of 40 rontgens/min. target distance of 530 cm. Everything is ready now. Woke 11 05. To sleep 3 15. The Voices of Time JG Ballard The Golux 11 06 00h 11 06 And . . . oh. The ironing. What am I going to do about that The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 11 07 00h At exactly seven minutes past eleven by the ship's clock the Adventurer gave a prolonged screech and moorings cast off edged her way out of the basin and dipped her nose in the laughing waters of the bay embarked at last on a voyage that was destined to fully vindicate her new name. The Adventure Club Afloat Ralph Henry Barbour Cindeesan 11 12 00h 11 12 I have a solution via the local paper. A girl from the village will collect it iron it all overnight at £3 a shirt and sew on Eddie's button. The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 11 15 00h The first time I saw them it was around eleven eleven-fifteen a Saturday morning I was about two thirds through my route when I turned onto their block and noticed a '56 Ford sedan pulled up in the yard with a big open U-Haul behind. There are only three houses on Pine and theirs was the last house the others being the Murchisons who'd been in Arcata a little less than a year and the Grants who'd been here about two years. Murchison worked at Simpson Redwood and Gene Grant was a cook on the morning shift at Denny's. Those two then a vacant lot then the house on the end that used to belong to the Coles. Where I'm Calling From Raymond Carver Cindeesan 11 17 00h Mrs. Mooney glanced instinctively at the little gilt clock on the mantelpiece as soon as she had become aware through her revery that the bells of George's Church had stopped ringing. It was seventeen minutes past eleven she would have lots of time to have the matter out with Mr. Doran and then catch short twelve at Marlborough Street. She was sure she would win. Dubliners James Joyce terribleman 11 25 00h At 10.15 Arlena departed from her rondezvous a minute or two later Patrick Redfern came down and registered surprise annoyance etc. Christine's task was easy enough. Keeping her own watch concealed she asked Linda at twenty-five past eleven what time it was. Linda looked at her watch and replied that it was a quarter to twelve. Evil under the Sun Agatha Christie translated 11 30 00h "O Frank - I made a mistake - I thought that church with the spire was All Saints' and I was at the door at half-past eleven to a minute as you said..." Far from the madding crowd Thomas Hardy Rose_red 11 30 00h " Thank-you " said C.B. quietly but as he hung up his face was grim. In a few minutes he would have to break it to John that although they had braved such dredful perils dring the earlier part of the night they had after all failed to save Christina. Beddows had abjured Satan at a little after half-past eleven. By about eighteen minutes the Canon had beaten them to it again." To the Devil a Daughter Dennis Wheatley frustrated artist 11 30 00h 'It is now 11.30. The door to this room is shut and will remain shut barring emergencies until 12.00. I am authorised to inform you that we are now under battle orders. Singularity Sky Charles Stross Proto Plasm 11 31 00h Albatross 8 passed over Pamlico Sound at 1131 local time. Its on-board programming was designed to trace thermal receptors over the entire visible horizon interrogating everything in sight and locking on any signature that fit its acquisition parameters. As it continued on its orbit and passed over elements of the U.S. fleet the New Jersey's jammers were aimed upward to scramble its signal. The satellite's tape systems dutifully recorded this. The jamming would tell the operators something about American electronic warfare systems. As Albatross 8 crossed the pole the parabolic dish on its front tracked in on the carrier signal of another bird the Iskra communications satellite. The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy Cindeesan 11 40 00h Did escape occur to him Did he examine to see if there were any practicable outlet from his prison Did he think of escaping from it Possibly for once he walked slowly around the room. But the door was locked and the window heavily barred with iron rods. He sat down again and drew his journal from his pocket. On the line where these words were written "21st December Saturday Liverpool " he added "80th day 11.40 a.m. " and waited. Eighty Days Aournd the World Jules Verne JLM 11 40 00h During the sessions at Ito he read the Lotus Sutra on mornings of play and he now seemed to be bringing himself to order through silent meditation. Then quickly there came a rap of stone on board. It was twenty minutes before noon. The Master of Go Yusunari Kawabata Proto Plasm 11 41 00h Spagnola took a deep breath and started into the log again. "Eleven forty-one large dog craps in Dr. Yamata's Aston Martin. Twelve oh-three dog eats two count 'em two of Mrs. Wittingham's Siamese cats. She just lost her husband last week this sort of put her over the edge. We had to call Dr. Yamata in off the putting green to give her a sedative. The personal-injury lawyer in the unit next to hers was home for lunch and he came over to help. He was talking class action then and we didn't even know who owned the dog yet." Coyote Blue Christopher Moore Cindeesan 11 42 00h 11 42 I'm doing fine. I'm doing well. I've got the Hoover on I'm cruising along nicely- What was that What just went up the Hoover Why is it making that grinding noise Have I broken it The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 11 45 00h She tucked the phone in the crook of her neck and thumbed hurriedly through her pink messages. .... Dr. Provetto at 11 45 A.M. Mistaken Identity Lisa Scottoline thecommonreader 11 45 00h I arrived at St.Gatien from Nice on Tuesday the 14th of August. I was arrested at 11.45 a.m. on Thursday the 16th by an agent de police and an inspector in plain clothes and taken to the Commissariat. Epitaph for a Spy Eric Ambler translated 11 45 00h "...I waited till a quarter to twelve and found then that I was in All Souls'. But I wasn't much frightened for I thought it could be tomorrow as well." Far from the madding crowd Thomas Hardy Rose_red 11 45 00h "I will tell you the time " said Septimus very slowly very drowsily smiling mysteriously. As he sat smiling at the dead man in the grey suit the quarter struck the quarter to twelve. Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf Patricia 11 51 00h The next day at nine minutes of twelve o'clock noon the last clock ran down and stopped. It was then placed in the town museum as a collector's item or museum piece with proper ceremonies addresses and the like. Lanterns and Lances The Last Clock James Thurber Ruthenium 11 55 00h It was 11 55 a.m. on April 30 All the President's Men Bernstein Woodward 11 55 00h What time did you arrive at the site It was 11 55. I remember since I happened to glance at my watch when we got there. We rode our bicycles to the bottom of the hill as far as we could go then climbed the rest of the way on foot. Kafka on the Shore Haruki Murakami Mrtsblog 11 58 00h Two minutes before the clock struck noon the savage baron was on the platform to inspect the preparation for the frightful ceremony of mid-day. The block was laid forth-the hideous minister of vengeance masked and in black with the flaming glaive in his hand was ready. The baron tried the edge of the blade with his finger and asked the dreadful swordsman if his hand was sure A nod was the reply of the man of blood. The weeping garrison and domestics shuddered and shrank from him. There was not one there but loved and pitied the gentle lady. Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray Cindeesan 11.00 00h ON the morning following the events just narrated Mrs. Arlington was seated at breakfast in a sweet little parlour of the splendid mansion which the Earl of Warrington had taken and fitted up for her in Dover Street Piccadilly. It was about eleven o'clock and the Enchantress was attired in a delicious deshabillé. With her little feet upon an ottoman near the fender and her fine form reclining in a luxurious large arm-chair she divided her attention between her chocolate and the columns of the Morning Herald. She invariably prolonged the morning's repast as much as possible limply because it served to wile away the time until the hour for dressing arrived. The Mysteries of London G.W.M. Reynolds frustrated artist 11.45 00h As he sat smiling the quarter struck - the quarter to twelve. Mrs Dalloway Candide 12 00 00h On Friday noon July the twentieth 1714 the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below. The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder DickonBroom 12 00 00h 'There's nobody here ' I insisted. 'It was yourself Mrs. Linton you knew it a while since.' 'Myself ' she gasped 'and the clock is striking twelve Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Bronte 12 00 00h 'There's nobody here ' I insisted. 'It was yourself Mrs. Linton you knew it a while since.' 'Myself ' she gasped 'and the clock is striking twelve Wuthering Heights ch 12 forgot to give chapter no on last posting E Bronte Bronte 12 00 00h It was precisely twelve o’clock twelve by Big Ben whose stroke was wafted over the northern part of London blent with that of other clocks mixed in a thin ethereal way with the clouds and wisps of smoke and died up there among the seagulls. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf anoif 12 00 00h "Roaring noon. In a well-fanned Forty-second Street cellar I met Gatsby for lunch." The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Sarah Churchwell 12 00 00h He had saved the republic and it was now in the present alive now and everywhere in the present and the hovering faces brightened and blurred about him became the sound of a canal in the morning the look of some roofs in the noon sun and the fragrance of a certain evening flower. Here he was home at last. Behind him were the mountains and the Sleeping Woman in the sky and before him like smoky flames in the sunset the whole beautiful beloved city. The Woman Who Had Two Navels Nick Joaquin Vincenz 12 00 00h It was precisely twelve o’clock twelve by Big Ben whose stroke was wafted over the northern part of London blent with that of other clocks mixed in a thin ethereal way with the clouds and wisps of smoke and died up there among the seagulls—twelve o’clock struck as Clarissa Dalloway laid her green dress on her bed and the Warren Smiths walked down Harley Street Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf JamesTheo 12 00 00h A Music numerous as space— But neighboring as Noon— Emily Dickinson 12 00 00h This is Thomas Hardy's poem about loss of innocence and belief. The Oxen Christmas Eve and twelve of the clock. "Now they are all on their knees " An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearthside ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years Yet I feel If someone said on Christmas Eve "Come see the oxen kneel "In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know " I should go with him in the gloom Hoping it might be so. The Oxen Thomas Hardy Prinzbach 12 00 00h It was precisely twelve o'clock twelve by Big Ben whose stroke was wafted over the northern part of London blent with that of other clocks mixed in a thin ethereal way with the clouds and wisps of smoke and died up there among the seagulls twelve o'clock struck as Clarissa Dalloway laid her green dress on her bed and the Warren Smiths walked down Harley Street. Twelve was the hour of their appointment. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf VaariC 12 00 00h A cheap little clock on the wall struck twelve hurriedly and served to begin the conversation. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky terribleman 12 00 00h 'It will soon be an hour and a half ' said the girl who kept the records. The noonday siren blew. 'Exactly a minute ' she said looking at the stopwatch of which she was so proud. The Master of Go Yasunari Kawabata Proto Plasm 12 00 00h It was precisely twelve o'clock twelve by Big Ben whose stroke was wafted over the northern part of London blent with that of other clocks mixed in a thin ethereal way wth the clouds and wisps of smoke and died up there among the seagulls - twelve o'clock struck as Clarissa Dalloway laid her green dress on the bed and the Warren Smiths walked down Harley Street. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Candide 12 00 00h and 15 00 00h it was now about the sixth hour and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Jesus called out with a loud voice " Father into your hands I commit my spirit." When he said this he breathed his last. The Bible Luke 23 44 Luke mossopjan 12 01 00h It was the twelfth of December the twelfth month. A was twelve. The electric clock/radio by his bedside table said 12 01. A was waiting for it to read 12 12 he hoped there would be some sense of cosmic rightness when it did. Boy A Jonathan Trigell Jared 12 02 15h It had struck twelve o'clock two minutes and a quarter. The Baron's footman hastily seized a large goblet and gasped with terror as he filled it with hot spiced wine. "Tis past the hour 'tis past ' he groaned in anguish 'and surely I shall now get the red hot poker the Baron hath so often promised me oh Woe is me Would that I had prepared the Baron's lunch before ' And without pausing a second he grasped in one hand the steaming goblet and flew along the lofty passages with the speed of a race horse. In less time than we take to relate it he reached the Baron's apartment opened the door and remained standing on tiptoe not daring to move one way or the other petrified with utter astonishment. Crundle Castle Lewis Carroll Cindeesan 12 03 00h Suddenly I felt a great stillness in the air then a snapping of tension. I glanced at my watch. Three minutes after midnight. I was breathing normally and my pen moved freely across the page. Whatever stalked me wasn’t quite as clever as I’d feared I thought careful not to pause in my work. The Historian Elizabeth Kostova @nightwriter 12 04 00h Though by then it was by Tina's own desk clock 12 04P.M. I was always touched when out of a morning's worth of repetition secretaries continued to answer with good mornings for an hour or so into the afternoon just as people often date things with the previous year well into February sometimes they caught their mistake and went into a "This is not my day" or "Where is my head " escape routine but in a way they were right since the true tone of afternoons does not take over in offices until nearly two. Nicholson Baker The Mezzanine terribleman 12 10 00h They paid for only one room and kept Einstein with them because they were not going to need privacy for lovemaking. Exhausted Travis barely managed to kiss Nora before falling into a deep sleep. He dreamed of things with yellow eyes misshapen heads and crocodile mouths full of sharks’ teeth. He woke five hours later at twelve-ten Thursday afternoon. Watchers Dean Koontz Cindeesan 12 11 00h At 12 11 there was a knock on the door. It was Terry A could tell. He hadn't known Terry long but there was something calmer more patient that separated Terry's knocks from the rest of the staff. He knocked from genuine politeness not formality. "Come in " A said although the lock was on the other side. Terry did. "It's your mother " he said. "There's no easy way to say this." Though he had just used the easiest because A now knew the rest. A’s face froze as it tried to catch up as it tried to register the news. Then it crumpled and while he considered this fresh blow the tears came. Boy A Jonathan Trigell Jared 12 15 00h Very well dear ' she said. 'I caught the 10.20 to Eastnor which isn't a bad train if you ever want to go down there. I arrived at a quarter past twelve and went straight up to the house you've never seen the house of course It's quite charming and told the butler that I wanted to see Mr Ford on business. I had taken the precaution to find out that he was not there. He is at Droitwich.' The Little Nugget P. G. Wodehouse Cindeesan 12 20 00h By twelve-twenty in the afternoon Vince was seated in a rattan chair with comfortable yellow and green cushions at a table by the windows in that same restaurant. He’d spotted Haines on entering. The doctor was at another window table three away from Vince half-screened by a potted palm. Haines was eating shrimp and drinking margaritas with a stunning blonde. She was wearing white slacks and a gaily striped tube-top and half the men in the place were staring at her. Watchers Dean Koontz Cindeesan 12 20 00h It is 12 20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get off the 4 19 in Easthampton at 7 15 and then go straight to dinner and I don't know the people who will feed me The Day Lady Died Frank O'Hara Kat Vapid 12 24 00h 12 24 My legs are in total agony. I've been kneeling on hard tiles cleaning the bath for what seems like hours. There are little ridges where the tiles have dug into my knees and I'm boiling hot and the cleaning chemicals are making me cough. All I want is a rest. But I can't stop for a moment. I am so behind . . . The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 12 30 00h 12.30 p.m. Lunch The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 12 30 00h Tuesday 12 30 P.M… Baker California… Into the Ballantine Ale now zombie drunk and nervous. I recognize this feeling three or four days of booze drugs sun no sleep and burned out adrenalin reserves – a giddy quavering sort of high that means the crash is coming. But when How much longer This tension is part of the high. The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now… but collapse is out of the question as a solution or even a cheap alternative it is unacceptable. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson kevinegperry 12 32 00h 12 30 What is wrong with this bleach bottle Which way is the nozzle pointing anyway I'm turning it round in confusion peering at the arrows on the plastic . . . Why won't anything come out OK I'm going to squeeze it really really hard- That nearly got my eye. 12 32 FUCK. What has it done to my HAIR The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 12 35 00h As surely as Apthorpe was marked for early promotion Trimmer was marked for ignominy. That morning he had appeared at the precise time stated in orders. Everyone else had been waiting five minutes and Colour Sergeant Cork called out the marker just as Trimmer appeared. So it was twelve-thirty-five when they were dismissed. Men At Arms Bk 1 ch 1 Evelyn Waugh Bronte 12 45 00h Whilst we were speaking we were startled by a knock at the hall door the double postman's knock of the telegraph boy. We all moved out to the hall with one impulse and Van Helsing holding up his hand to us to keep silence stepped to the door and opened it. The boy handed in a dispatch. The Professor closed the door again and after looking at the direction opened it and read aloud. "Look out for D. He has just now 12 45 come from Carfax hurriedly and hastened towards the South. He seems to be going the round and may want to see you Mina" There was a pause broken by Jonathan Harker's voice "Now God be thanked we shall soon meet " Van Helsing turned to him quickly and said "God will act in His own way and time. Do not fear and do not rejoice as yet. For what we wish for at the moment may be our own undoings." Dracula Bram Stoker Cindeesan 12 59 00h And I had been looking at my watch since the train had started at 12.59 p.m. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 12.01 00h And on all sides there were the clocks. Conrad noticed them immediately at every street corner over every archway three quarters of the way up the sides of buildings covering every conceivable angle of approach. Most of them were too high off the ground to be reached by anything less than a fireman's ladder and still retained their hands. All registered the same time 12 01. Conrad looked at his wristwatch noted that it was just 2 45. ‘‘They were driven by a master dock’’ Stacey told him. ‘‘When that stopped they all ceased at the same moment. One minute after midnight thirty-seven years ago.’’ Chronopolis J.G. Ballard secretcinema 12.30 00h "You'll never believe this but in Spain they are two hours late for ever meal - two hours Fanny - can we lunch at half-past twelve today " Love in a Cold Climate Nancy Mitford thefatcontroller 13 00 00h "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen." Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell SamLiu 13 00 00h It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984 George Orwell sfcockburn 13 00 00h It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984 George Orwell jesperlaerke 13 00 00h It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell TheOrwellPrize 13 00 00h "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen" 1984 George Orwell davidbarnett 13 00 00h It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell teecosy 13 00 00h “Czarina Catherine reported entering Galatz at one o'clock to-day.” Dracula Bram Stoker Violet_apple 13 00 00h It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984 George Orwell Marisa Birns 13 00 00h It was a cold bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. Ninteen Eighty Four George Orwell Scolopax 13 00 00h The clocks were striking 13. 1984 George Orwell Bear Tor 13 00 00h "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen." 1984 George Orwell Dan Holloway 13 00 00h 'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen as Winston Smith...' 1984 George Orwell Marfi 13 00 00h The clock struck thirteen ninteen eighty four G. Orwell Mr_sum_wun 13 00 00h clock was striking thirteen quoting from memory don't have the book to hand 1984 opening page Orwell Bronte 13 00 00h "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen." Brave New World George Orwell DevonEmma 13 00 00h 'It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen'. 1984 George Orwell katelordbrown 13 00 00h "It was a little after one o'clock when I got there time for lunch so I had it. The food was awful. But it would go on the expense account and after I'd eaten I got out my notebook and put it down. Lunch $1.50. Taxi $1.00." The Big Clock Kenneth Fearing kgittleson 13 00 00h "One o'clock pee em Hello Insert Name Here " Said by the Disorganizer Jingo Terry Pratchett k8wthrwx 13 00 00h The day-room floor gets cleared of tables and at one o'clock the doctor comes out of his office down the hall nods once at the nurse as he goes past where he's watching out of her window sits in his chair just to the left of the door. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey BelfastKoala 13 00 00h After 1 o'clock checks Gretta always goes out for a smoke. Girl Interrupted Susanna Kaysen 13 00 00h 1.00 p.m. First afternoon class The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 13 00 00h "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen." 1984 George Orwell Alcuin Edwards 13 00 00h That day it was one o'clock before John and Roger rowed across and went up to Dixon's farm for the milk and a new supply of eggs and butter. Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome sipowicz 13 00 00h Many moons passed by. Did Baboon ever fly Did he ever get to the sun I’ve just heard today That he’s well on his way He’ll be passing through Acton at one. Silly Old Baboon Spike Milligan SimonH 13 00 00h Gottfried Rembke arrived at 1pm precisely. The moment he walked into the restaurant handed his coat to the waiter they knew it was him. The solid stocky body the gleaming pate the open expression the vigorous handshake everything about him radiated ease and enthusiasm Platform Michel Houellebecq terribleman 13 00 00h "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen." Nineteen-Eighty-Four George Orwell ALdelta1 13 00 00h "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen." Nineteen Eighty Four George Orwell A Murray 13 00 00h It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. 1984 George Orwell ClaireH 13 00 00h "It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking 13." 1984 George Orwell bluewombat 13 00 00h It was one o'clock. I bought some apples and a small pork pie and drove across the bridge to the other side of the riverbank in the direction of Orford Ness. The Swimmer Roma Tearne crumbs 13 00 00h I got to Schmidt's early feeling horribly nervous. At one o'clock sharp Toni. She was looking at the menu she knew well - Schmorbraten Schnitzel - when he loomed over her. I had seen him come in. She looked up through him at me. 'Traitor.' Jamie hovering looking very big said her pet name a German diminutive chosen by her. Toni addressed the air. 'If he does not leave at once I shall tell the waiter that I am not sharing my table with this gentleman.' Jamie heard said her name again turned to go I rose to go with him. Toni - with that concentration of will - said 'YOU are lunching with me.' Jigsaw Sybille Bedford Raylr 13 05 00h “Samantha ” I can hear Trish approaching. “Um . . . hold on ” I hurry to the door trying to block her view. “It's already five past one ” I can hear her saying a little sharply. “And I did ask most clearly for . . .” Her voice trails off into silence as she reaches the kitchen door and her whole face sags in astonishment. I turn and follow her gaze as she surveys the endless plates of sandwiches. “My goodness ” At last Trish finds her voice. “This is . . . this is very impressive ” The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella cindeesan 13 15 00h The clock caught Miss LaFosse´s eye. ´Good heavens ´ she gasped. ´Look at the time. Quarter-past one. You must be starved.' She turned impetuously to Miss Pettigrew. Miss Pettigrew lives for a Day Winifred Watson Elsje Heuff 13 16 00h And the first stop had been at 1.16 p.m. which was 17 minutes later. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 13 20 00h "I care for nothing now " he answered hotly "except to wipe out this brute from the face of creation. I would sell my soul to do it " "Oh hush hush my child" said Van Helsing. "God does not purchase souls in this wise and the Devil though he may purchase does not keep faith. But God is merciful and just and knows your pain and your devotion to that dear Madam Mina. Think you how her pain would be doubled did she but hear your wild words. Do not fear any of us we are all devoted to this cause and today shall see the end. The time is coming for action. Today this Vampire is limit to the powers of man and till sunset he may not change. It will take him time to arrive here see it is twenty minutes past one and there are yet some times before he can hither come be he never so quick. What we must hope for is that my Lord Arthur and Quincey arrive first." Dracula Bram Stoker Cindeesan 13 20 00h Kamarov signal to Purga 'Diving at— '" he checked his watch "'—1320 hours. Exercise OCTOBER FROST begins as scheduled. You are released to other assigned duties. We will return as scheduled." Kamarov worked the trigger on the blinker light to transmit the message. The Purga responded at once and Ramius read the flashing signal unaided "IF THE WHALES DON'T EAT YOU. GOOD LUCK TO RED OCTOBER " The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy Cindeesan 13 23 00h And when we got to Swindon Mother had keys to the house and we went in and she said 'Hello ' but there was no one there because it was 1 23pm. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightime Mark Haddon crumbs 13 25 00h The video shop next door was one I'd patronized a few times. Something called Hard Times was on the twenty-seven-inch monitor at the entrance. Charles Bronson was a bare-knuckle boxer James Coburn his manager. I stepped inside and asked to see the-fight scene again. The woman behind the counter looked bored. I offered her one of the gateaux while Bronson battered a bald-headed opponent. The ringside crowd expected the brute to win but they didn't know that Bronson never loses. I got up to leave."Why don't you stick around and watch the whole thing " invited Mrs. Video Shop. I'd really have liked to I told her if it weren't for the things I had in the drier. I cast an eye at my watch. One-twenty-five. The drier had already stopped. She made one last pitch. "Three classic Hitchcock pictures coming in next week.” Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami Cindeesan 13 30 00h "She was a a sticker. A clock away in the town struck half past one." Brighton Rock Graham Greene 13 30 00h Shredding and slicing dividing and subdividing the clocks of Harley Street nibbled at the June day counselled submission upheld authority and pointed out in chorus the supreme advantages of a sense of proportion until the mound of time was so far diminished that a commercial clock suspended above a shop in Oxford Street announced genially and fraternally as if it were a pleasure to Messrs Rigby and Lowndes to give the information gratis that it was half-past one. Mrs dalloway Virginia Woolf Candide 13 30 00h Lupin not having come down I went up again at half-past one and said we dined at two he said he "would be there." The Diary of a Nobody George and Weedon Grossmith JLM 13 30 00h This hymn-singing seemed to me just as silly as the port wine they gave us before the match indeed 'Onward Christian Soldiers' and port wine are still inextricably mixed together in my mind. We had our usual enormous dinner at 1.30 and as the match was at 2.15 we used to get all ready first even to strapping our hockey-pads on to our legs before we set to work to consume vast platefuls of pea-soup great chunks of roast beef and vegetables and slabs of suet pudding and jam. Then each member of the team was solemnly given a glassful of sweet and sticky port and we rushed straight from the table out to the hockey field. I found the port extremely nasty and difficult to swallow and everyone complained that it made them feel sick still it was an honour to get it so we drank it gratefully. But if we won the match - and we generally did win – it must have been that the spiritual uplift imparted to us by 'Onward Christian Soldiers' was able to overcome even the acute discomfort of the mixture in our insides. Period Piece Gwen Raverat Raylr 13 32 20h 'At the third stroke it will be one ... thirty-two ... and twenty seconds. 'Beep ... beep ... beep.' Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction realized that he had no reason to suppress it and laughed out loud a wicked laugh. So long and thanks for all the fish Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 13 32 30h He switched the incoming signal through from the Sub-Etha Net to the ship's superb hi-fi system and the odd rather stilted sing-song voice spoke out with remarkable clarity around the cabin. 'At the third stroke it will be one ... thirty-two ... and thirty seconds.' So long and thanks for all the fish Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 13 32 40h For the length of time he had in mind the question of power consumption became significant. He didn't want a murder on his conscience. 'At the third stroke it will be one ... thirty-two ... and forty seconds.' So long and thanks for all the fish Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 13 32 50h He checked around the small ship. He walked down the short corridor. 'At the third stroke ...' He stuck his head into the small functional gleaming steel bathroom. 'it will be ...' It sounded fine in there. He looked into the tiny sleeping quarters. '... one ... thirty-two ...' It sounded a bit muffled. There was a towel hanging over one of the speakers. He took down the towel. '... and fifty seconds.' Fine. So long and thanks for all the fish Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 13 33 50h He waited for the green light to show and then opened the door again on to the now empty cargo hold. '... one ... thirty-three ... and fifty seconds.' Very nice. So long and thanks for all the fish Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 13 34 00h He then went and had a last thorough examination of the emergency suspended animation chamber which was where he particularly wanted it to be heard. 'At the third stroke it will be one ... thirty ... four ... precisely.' So long and thanks for all the fish Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 13 34 20h 'At the third stroke it will be ...' He tiptoed out and returned to the control cabin. '... one ... thirty-four and twenty seconds.' The voice sounded as clear as if he was hearing it over a phone in London which he wasn't not by a long way. So long and thanks for all the fish Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 13 39 00h And it was now 1.39 p.m. which was 23 minutes after the stop which mean that we would be at the sea if the train didn't go in a big curve. But I didn't know if it went in a big curve. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 13 50 00h Rahel's toy wristwatch had the time painted on it. Ten to two. One of her ambitions was to own a watch on which she could change the time whenever she wanted to which according to her was what Time was meant for in the first place . The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy A Reader 13 59 00h 'At the third stroke it will be ...' For twenty minutes he sat and watched as the gap between the ship and Epun closed as the ship's computer teased and kneaded the numbers that would bring it into a loop around the little moon and close the loop and keep it there orbiting in perpetual obscurity. 'One ... fifty-nine ...' So long and thanks for all the fish Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 13.13 00h The next day the sky was again overcast but on Sunday the 28th of June the antepenultimate day of the month with the change of the moon came a change of weather. The sun poured a flood of light down the crater. Every hillock every rock and stone every projecting surface had its share of the beaming torrent and threw its shadow on the ground. Amongst them all Scartaris laid down his sharp-pointed angular shadow which began to move slowly in the opposite direction to that of the radiant orb. My uncle turned with it. At noon being at its least extent it came and softly fell upon the edge of the middle chimney. "There it is There it is " shouted the Professor. "Now for the centre of the globe " he added in Danish. I looked at Hans. "Forüt " was his tranquil answer. "Forward " replied my uncle. It was thirteen minutes past one. Journey to the Centre of the Earth Jules Verne frustrated artist 14 00 00h The Home for Aged Persons is at Marengo some fifty miles from Algiers. With the two -o'clock bus I should get there well before nightfall. Then I can spend the night there keeping the usual vigil beside the body and be back here by tomorrow evening. The Outsider Camus translated 14 00 00h I caught the two o'clock bus. It was very hot. I ate at Céleste's restaurant as usual. They all felt very sorry for me and Céleste told me 'There's no one like a mother'. The Outsider Albert Camus AggieH 14 00 00h 'She could have fired the jig and he could have kept on picking up his packages at the old time two o'clock. As it was he had almost been arrested.' A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole traverso1685 14 00 00h "The old people's home is at Marengo fifty miles from Algiers. I'll catch the two o'clock bus and get there in the afternoon.".... "I caught the two o'clock bus. It was very hot." The Outsider Albert Camus LizMo 14 00 00h At two o'clock Gatsby put on his bathing suit and left word with the butler that if any one phoned word was to be brought to him at the pool. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Sarah Churchwell 14 00 00h "The bells of St. Maria struck two as she came out from the subway station on Wollmar Yxkullsgatan. Before hurrying on towards the Maria Square she halted and lit a cigarette." Opening lines from my latest Martin Beck mystery picked up within seconds of reading about the blog in the review. The Locked Room Maj Sjöwall Per Wahlöö Ludmilla59 14 00 00h At two the snowplows were in action in Lillestrom. The Snowman Jo Nesbo 14 00 00h When Salander woke up it was 2.00 on Saturday afternoon and a doctor was poking at her. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest Stieg Larsson 14 00 00h At approximately 1400 hours a pair of enemy Skyhawks came flying in at deck level out of nowhere. Black Swan Green David Mitchell Sheps 14 00 00h At about two o' clock the owners young wife came carrying a handleless cup and a pot with a quilted cover to where I was still lying disconsolate A Single Pebble John Hershey Proto Plasm 14 00 00h The next day was Saturday and now that Moon was done I decided to bring the job to its end. So I sent word that I shouldn't be able to umpire for the team at Steeple Sinderby and after working through the morning came down about two o'clock. A Month in the Country JL Carr Eugenius 14 00 00h It was almost two o’clock but nothing moved Stari Teočak was silent and so empty it seemed abandoned and yet Tijmen constantly felt he was being observed by invisible eyes. King of Tuzla Arnold Jansen op de Haar Bernadette 14 05 00h ...and at five past two on 17 September of that same unforgettable year 1916 I was in the Muryovo hospital yard standing on trampled withered grass flattened by the September rain. A Country Doctor's Notebook Mikhail Bulgakov snowfinch 14 13 50h 'At the third stroke it will be two ... thirteen ... and fifty seconds.' He giggled and sniggered. He would have laughed out loud but he didn't have room. So long and thanks for all the fish Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 14 15 00h 2.15 p.m. Second afternoon class The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 14 15 00h I had a date with her next day at 2.15 P.M. in my own rooms but it was less successful she seemed to have grown less juvenile more of a woman overnight. A cold I caught from her led me to cancel a fourth assignment nor was I sorry to break an emotional series that threatened to burden me with heart-rending fantasies and peter out in dull disappointment. So let her remain sleek slender Monique as she was for a minute or two a delinquent nymphet shining through the matter-of-fact young whore. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov terribleman 14 20 00h She looked at her watch and it was twenty minutes past two. She had no time to lose but must get ready at once. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens cathannabel 14 20 00h 'looked at her watch and it was twenty minutes past two A tale of two cities Charles Dickens 14 20 00h On a search-warrant being issued for the examination of his room clothes and so forth it was discovered that he had destroyed all his papers and rearranged all his possessions on the very afternoon of the disappearance. The watch found at the Weir was challenged by the jeweller as one he had wound and set for Edwin Drood at twenty minutes past two on that same afternoon and it had run down before being cast into the water and it was the jeweller's positive opinion that it had never been re-wound. This would justify the hypothesis that the watch was taken from him not long after he left Mr. Jasper's house at midnight in company with the last person seen with him and that it had been thrown away after being retained some hours. Why thrown away The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens frustrated artist 14 20 00h She looked at her watch it was twenty minutes past two. She had no time to lose but must get ready at once. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens kbergen 14 20 00h Inevitable implacable the rainstorm wept itself out. She saw Tom look at his watch. 'What time is it ' 'Twenty past two. Want to go back to the hotel for a while ' 'All right.' They walked out of the gardens and down the rue de Vaugirard. This holiday unlike those holidays long ago would not end with her sleeping at home. Two nights from now I will be high over the Atlantic Ocean and on Saturday I will be walking around in the Other Place. I am going to America. I am starting my life over again. But as she said these words to herself she found it hard to imagine what the new life would be like. And again she was afraid. The Doctor's Wife Brian Moore Raylr 14 25 00h Gary shut himself inside his office and flipped through the messages. Caroline had called at 1 35 1 40 1 50 1 55 and 2 10 it was now 2 25. He pumped his fist in triumph. Finally finally some evidence of desperation. The Corrections Jonathan Franzen 14 30 00h At 2.30 p.m. on the 13th inst. began to shadow Sir Bobadil the Ostrich whom I suspect of being the criminal. Shadowing successful. Didn't lose sight of him once. The Wind on the Moon Eric Linklater @nostalgia4books 14 30 00h May 14th 1800. Wm and John set off into Yorkshire after dinner at 1/2 past 2 o'clock cold pork in their pockets. I left them at the turning of the Low-wood bay under the trees. My heart was so full that I could barely speak to W. when I gave him a farewell kiss. The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth 14 30 00h At half past two the same afternoon the boy and the elderly man are standing in the room directly above the Inner Office and Waiting-Room. Corker's Freedom John Berger jrsd 14 30 00h Ach It's 2 30. Look how the time is flying. And it's still so much to do today.. It's dishes to clean dinner to defrost and my pills I haven't yet counted. I don't get it... Why didn't the Jews at least try to resist It wasn't so easy like you think. Everybody was so starving and frightened and tired they couldn't believe even what's in front of their eyes. Maus Art Spiegelman Elsje Heuff 14 36 00h I look at my watch. Two thirty-six. all I've got left today is take in the laundry and fix dinner. The Elephant Vanishes Haruki Murakami kushti 14 40 00h If a girl looks swell when she meets you who gives a damn when she's late 'We better hurry' I said. 'The show starts at two-forty.' The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger Elsje Heuff 14 45 00h He never came down till a quarter to three. The Diary of a Nobody George and Weedon Grossmith JLM 14 45 00h Pull the other one and tell it to the marines and don't make me laugh and fuck off out of it and all that but the fact remained that it was still only two forty-five'. The Pregnant Window Martin Amis John Mullan 14 50 00h Stands the Church clock at ten to three And is there honey still for tea The Old Vicarage Grantchester Rupert Brooke lemonthyme 14 50 00h "The lies and truths and pain . . . oh yet Stands the Church clock at ten to three And is there honey still for tea " The Old Vicarage Grantchester Rupert Brooke Alcuin Edwards 14 50 00h And is there honey still for tea Stands the Church clock at ten to three The Old Vicarage Grantchester Rupert Brooke SamMason 14 55 00h The superior the very reverend John Conmee SJ reset his smooth watch in his interior pocket as he came down the presbytery steps. Five to three. Just nice time to walk to Artane. Ulysses James Joyce saintchanel 14.32 00h Like 2.32 p.m. Beecher and Avalon L3 R2 which meant left three blocks right two 2 35 p.m. and you wondered how you could pick up one box then drive 5 blocks in 3 minutes and be finished cleaning out another box. Post Office Charles Bukowski Miles Teheux 14.35 00h Like 2.32 p.m. Beecher and Avalon L3 R2 which meant left three blocks right two 2 35 p.m. and you wondered how you could pick up one box then drive 5 blocks in 3 minutes and be finished cleaning out another box. Post Office Charles Bukowski Miles Teheux 14.55 00h In the end it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2.55 when you know you’ve had all the baths you can usefully have that day that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul. Life the universe and everything Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 15 00 00h The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling - a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it. Casino Royale Ian Fleming nilpferd 15 00 00h "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre danielkramb 15 00 00h And the sound of the bell flooded the room with its melancholy wave which receded and gathered itself together to fall once more when she heard distractedly something fumbling something scratching at the door. Who at this hour Three good Heavens Three already For with overpowering directness and dignity the clock struck three and she heard nothing else but the door handle slipped around and in came Richard. What a surprise In came Richard holding out flowers. Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf RachaelSweet 15 00 00h The sun was now setting. It was about three in the afternoon when Alisande had begun to tell me who the cowboys were so she had made pretty good progress with it - for her. She would arrive some time or other no doubt but she was not a person who could be hurried. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain Blockhead 15 00 00h . It was three o'clock in the beautiful breezy autumn day when Mr. Casaubon drove off to his Rectory at Lowick only five miles from Tipton and Dorothea who had on her bonnet and shawl hurried along the shrubbery and across the park that she might wander through the bordering wood with no other visible companionship than that of Monk the Great St. Bernard dog who always took care of the young ladies in their walks Middlemarch ch.3 George Eliot Bronte 15 00 00h Austerlitz is talking of the extermination of Jews in Theresianstadt Nov. 1943 it's an immensely long sentence from which this is extracted outside the gates in the open fields of Bohusevice basin when the entire population of the ghetto...was marched out after assembling in the barracks yards at dawn to be drawn up in block formation behind numbered wooden boards and there throughout the whole of this cold and damp day as the fog drifted over the fields they were forced to wait guarded by the armed police and not permitted to step out of line even for a minute for the SS men to arrive as they eventually did on their motorbikes at three o'clock... p. 338 hardback edn Austerlitz WG Sebald Bronte 15 00 00h At three o'clock on the afternoon of that same day he called on her. She held out her two hands smiling in her usual charming friendly way and for a few seconds they looked deep into each other's eyes. Bel-Ami Guy de Maupassant translated by Douglas Parmee 15 00 00h "Remember " they shouted "battle at three o'clock sharp. There's no time to lose." Swallows and Amazons Arthur Ransome Rose_red 15 00 00h “Ladies bathed before noon after their three-o’clock naps and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.” To kill a mockingbird Harper Lee 15 00 00h On Wednesday at three o'clock Monsieur and Madame Bovary seated in their dog-cart set out for Vaubyessard with a great trunk strapped on behind and a bonnet-box in front of the apron. Besides these Charles held a bandbox between his knees. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert terribleman 15 00 00h Three o'clock is the perfect time in Cham because anything is possible. You can still ski but also respectably start drinking the shops have just reopened the sun is still up. Three o'clock is never too late or too early. Cham Jonathan Trigell Jared 15 00 00h M. Madeleine usually came at three o'clock and as punctuality was kindness he was punctual. Les Miserables Victor Hugo kbergen 15 00 00h He walks into the Hospital for Broken Things at three o'clock on Monday afternoon. That was the arrangement. If he came in after six o'clock he was to head straight for the house in Sunset Park. Sunset Park Paul Auster Louis Kim 15 00 00h At three on the Wednesday afternoon that bit of the painting was completed. The Moonstone Wilkie Collins JLM 15 00 00h At three o’clock precisely I was at Baker Street but Holmes had not yet returned. A Scandal in Bohemia Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Out of Print 15 00 00h Feelings of virtue breed spontaneously in the fertile soil of suffering. The more one suffers the more virtuous one must be. The Jesus complex was entangled in feelings of superiority the superiority of the underdog who considers himself above his oppressors with their tyranny and blindness. Ditched by the woman I loved I exalted my suffering into a sign of greatness lying collapsed on a bed at three in the afternoon and hence protected myself from experiencing my grief as the outcome of what was at best a mundane romantic break-up. Chloe's departure may have killed me but it had at least left me in glorious possession of the moral high ground. I was a martyr. Essays in Love Alain de Botton @alanawhitman 15 00 00h Today was the day Alex had appointed for her 'punishment'. I became increasingly nervous as the hour of three o'clock approached. I was alone in the house and paced restlessly from room to room glancing at the clocks in each of them. Deaf Sentence David Lodge traverso1685 15 07 00h The next day was grey threatening rain. He was there at seven minutes past three. The clock on the church over the way pointed to it. They had arranged to were at three fifteen. Therefore if she had been there when he came she would have been eight minutes before her time. But very sensibly she was not there eight minutes before her time. Nor was there any reason why she should be there eight minutes before her time. Nor yet five minutes before her time. Nor yet four three two minutes before her time. And she was not. He applauded her discretion. At a quarter past however he had a right to expect her. She had not come." Twenty thousand streets under the sky Patrick Hamilton frustrated artist 15 0h0 00 'I gotta get uptown by three o'clock.' A Confederacy of Dunces John Kennedy Toole traverso1685 15 14 00h A signal sounded. "There's the 3.14 up " said Perks. "You lie low till she's through and then we'll go up along to my place and see if there's any of them strawberries ripe what I told you about." The Railway Children Edith Nesbit JLM 15 15 00h July 3 5 3/4 hours. Little done today. Deepening lethargy dragged myself over to the lab nearly left the road twice. Concentrated enough to feed the zoo and get the log up to date. Read through the operating manuals Whitby left for the last time decided on a delivery rate of 40 rontgens/min. target distance of 530 cm. Everything is ready now. Woke 11 05. To sleep 3 15. The Voices of Time JG Ballard The Golux 15 15 00h I got out my old clothes. I put wool socks over my regular socks and took my time lacing up the boots. I made a couple of tuna sandwiches and some double-decker peanut-butter crackers. I filled my canteen and attached the hunting knife and the canteen to my belt. As I was going out the door I decided to leave a note. So I wrote "Feeling better and going to Birch Creek. Back soon. R. 3 15." That was about four hours from now. Where I'm Calling From Raymond Carver Cindeesan 15 23 00h Three twenty-three Is that all Doesn't time - no I've already said that thought that. I sit and watch the seconds change on the watch. I used to have a limited edition Rolex worth the price of a new car but I lost it. It was present from...Christine No Inez. She got fed up with me always having to ask other people what the time was embarrassed on my behalf. Espedair Street Iain Banks talkietoaster 15 27 00h And she rang the Reverend Peters and he came into school at 3.27 pm and he said 'So young man are we ready to roll ' And I did Paper 1 of my Maths A level sitting in the Art Room. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 15 27 00h And she rang the Reverend Peters and he came into school at 3.27pm and he said 'So young man are we ready to roll ' The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightime Mark Haddon crumbs 15 30 00h 3.30 p.m. Catch school bus home The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 15 30 00h I must have completed my packing with time to spare for when the knock came on my door at half past three precisely I had been sitting in my chair waiting for a good while. I opened the door to a young Chinese man perhaps not even twenty dressed in a gown his hat in his hand. 'I am your driver sir' he announced softly. If you have suitcase I will carry.' When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro Raylr 15 35 00h If Me flashed a little crazy after a restless night of smoking prowling the darkened house with owl-eyes alert to suspicious noises outside on the roof it didn’t inevitably mean she’d still be in such a state when the schoolbus deposited Wolfie back home at 3 35 P.M. I Am No One You Know Stories Joyce Carol Oates nightwriter 15 40 00h At three-forty Cliff called to report that Dilworth and his lady friend were sitting on the deck of the Amazing Grace eating fruit and sipping wine reminiscing a lot laughing a little. “From what we can pick up with directional microphones and from what we can see I’d say they don’t have any intention of going anywhere. Except maybe to bed. They sure do seem to be a randy old pair.” “Stay with them ” Lem said. “I don’t trust him.” Watchers Dean Koontz Cindeesan 15 45 00h One meal is enough now topped up with a glucose shot. Sleep is still 'black' completely unrefreshing. Last night I took a 16 mm. film of the first three hours screened it this morning at the lab. The first true-horror movie. I looked like a half-animated corpse. Woke 10 25. To sleep 3 45. The Voices of Time JG Ballard The Golux 15 49 00h 3.49 p.m. Get off school bus at home The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 15 49 00h But there were more bad things than good things. And one of them was that Mother didn't get back from work til 5.30 pm so I had to go to Father's house between 3.49 pm and 5.30 pm because I wasn't allowed to be on my own and Mother said I didn't have a choice so I pushed the bed against the door in case Father tried to come in. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 15 50 00h 3.50 p.m. Have juice and snack The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 15 55 00h 3.55 p.m. Give Toby food and water The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 15 57 00h It was close upon four before the door opened and a drunken-looking groom ill-kempt and side-whiskered with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of disguises I had to look three times before I was certain that it was indeed he. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle Dr Watson 15.37 00h The explosion was now officially designated an "Act of God". But thought Dirk what god And why What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15.37 flight to Oslo The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 16 00 00h I only found out much later that those flowers were called Four O’clock and were not magic at all. The magic was in the seed waiting to be watered and cared for the real magic was life. Ghost Generations Susan May Gudge sweets 16 00 00h Her eyes caught the kryptonite glow of the digital clock on the front of the microwave. Honest and true the numbers spelled out the time although she for a moment found its calculation to be somehow erroneous. It was four o’clock in the afternoon. Blood Bride Susan May Gudge sweets 16 00 00h A little after four o'clock Pippa meandered over to Dot's house carrying a bottle of wine she had been keeping in reserve and wondering if she could possibly be pregnant in spite of the vestigial coil still lodged in her uterus like astronaut litter abandoned on the moon. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Rebecca Miller BelfastKoala 16 00 00h The horrifying R.N. wipes Gately's face off as best she can with her hand and says she'll try to fit him in for a sponge bath before she goes off shift at 1600h. at which Gately goes rigid with dread. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace translated 16 00 00h Four o clock has just struck. Good Arrangement revision reading from four to five. Short snooze ...from five to six. Affair of agent and sealed letter from seven to eight. At eight en route. The Woman in White - The Story Continued Walter Hartwright VII 16 00 00h He looked at his watch it was nearly 4. He helped Delphine to her feet and led her down a passage to a rear door that gave on to the hospital garden. The Blue Afternoon William Boyd 16 00 00h As he turned off towards the fishing village of Cellardyke the familiar pips announced the four o'clock news. The comforting voice of the newsreader began the bulletin. 'The convicted serial killer and former TV chat show host Jacko Vance has begun his appeal against conviction. The Last Temptation Val McDermid orlando 16 00 00h 4.00 p.m. Take Toby out of his cage The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 16 00 00h Djerzinski arrived punctually at four o’clock. Desplechin had asked to see him. The case was intriguing. Certainly it was common for a researcher to take a year’s sabbatical to work in Norway or Japan or one of those sinister countries where middle aged people committed suicide en masse. Atomised Michel Houellebecq terribleman 16 00 00h In the four thousand rooms of the Centre the four thousand electric clocks simultaneously struck four. Discarnate voices called from the trumpet mouths. "Main Day-shift off duty. Second Day-shift take over. Main Day-shift off …" Brave New World Aldous Huxley Irv 16 00 00h Charmian woke at four and sensed the emptiness of the house. Memento Mori Muriel Spark HannahFreeman 16 00 00h In the end it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn’t cope with and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2.55 when you know you’ve had all the baths you can usefully have that day that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul. Life the universe and everything Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 16 00 00h He played for twenty-two days just as he said he would. Every day at four o'cock in the afternoon regardless of how much fighting was going on around him. The Cellist Of Sarajevo Steven Galloway crumbs 16 00 00h Four o'clock when time in the city quivers on its axis - the day not yet spent the wheels of evening just beginning to turn. The handover hour was how Marius liked to think of it. The Act of Love Howard Jacobson Bethan Ball 16 00 00h Towards four o'clock the condition of the English army was serious. The Prince of Orange was in command of the centre Hill of the right wing Picton of the left wing. The Prince of Orange desperate and intrepid shouted to the Hollando-Belgians "Nassau Brunswick Never retreat " Les Miserables Victor Hugo M Marsh 16 00 00h I doubt whether anyone was commissioned to send the news along the actual telegraph and yet Mrs. Proudie knew it before four o'clock. But she did not know it quite accurately.'Bishop' she said standing at her husband's study door. 'They have committed that man to gaol. There was no help for them unless they had forsworn themselves.' The Last Chronicle of Barset Anthony Trollope Elsje Heuff 16 00 00h It was my turn to cook the evening meal so I didn't linger in the common room. It was exactly 4 o'clock as I made my way out of the building and doors opened behind and before me discharging salvos of vocal babble and the noise of chair-legs scraping on wooden floors. Deaf Sentence David Lodge traverso 1685 16 03 00h She read the page carefully and then said '16.03 - cat goes to the toilet in front garden.' What was Lost Catherine O'Flynn DennisPreston 16 05 00h I had met Irwin on the steps of the Widener Library. I was standing at the top of the long flight overlooking the red brick buildings that walled the snow-filled quad and preparing to catch the trolley back to the asylum when a tall young man with a rather ugly and bespectacled but intelligent face came up and said 'Could you please tell me the time ' I glanced at my watch. 'Five past four.' The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath pbj 16 07 00h Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh ça y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet and for an instant he was suspended in air and then he realised that he had died without Communion without time to repent of anything or to say goodbye to anyone at seven minutes after four on Pentecost Sunday. Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez Roadsister 16 10 00h She looks at the clock. She's in the kitchen. A minute left. She waits. It's ten-past four. She picks up the eclair. She licks the cream out of it. She watches herself.It's fuckin' stupid. But. She bites into the chocolate and the pastry that's been softened by the cream. Jack's not home yet. Leannes's at work. Paula will be leaving herself in a bit. She's a year off the drink. Exactly a year. She looks at the clock. A year and a minute. Paula Spencer Roddy Doyle Cindeesan 16 10 00h 1610h. E.T.A Weight room. Freestyle circuits. the clank and click of various resistance systems. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace translated 16 13 00h But at precisely 4.13 pm the fifty thousand spectators saw the totally unexpected happen before their very eyes.From the most crowded section of the southern grandstand an appirition suddenly emerged..... Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter Mario Vargas Llosa DennisPreston 16 15 00h Must have the phone disconnected. Some contractor keeps calling me up about payment for 50 bags of cement he claims I collected ten days ago. Says he helped me load them onto a truck himself. I did drive Whitby's pick-up into town but only to get some lead screening. What does he think I'd do with all that cement Just the sort of irritating thing you don't expect to hang over your final exit. Moral don't try too hard to forget Eniwetok. Woke 9 40. To sleep 4 15. The Voices of Time JG Ballard The Golux 16 15 00h On the tenth day of October at quarter past four in the afternoon with a dry hot wind blowing through the passed Maria found herself in Baker. She had never meant to go as far as Baker had started out that day as every day her only destination the freeway. But she had driven out of San Bernadino and up the Barstow and instead of turning back at Barstow she had been out that far before but never that late in the day it was past time to navigate back she was out too far too late the rhythm was lost she kept driving. Play it as it Lays Joan Didion KDMiller 16 17 00h Apparently the great Percy has no sense of humour for at four-seventeen he got tired of it and hit Skinner crisply in the right eyeball blacking the same as per illustration. The subsequent fight raged gorily for five minutes odd and then Wilson who seems to be a professional pugilist in disguise landed what my informant describes as three corkers on his opponent's proboscis. Skinner's reply was to sit down heavily on the floor and give him to understand that the fight was over and that for the next day or two his face would be closed for alterations and repairs. Wilson thereupon harangued the company in well-chosen terms tried to get Skinner to shake hands but failed and finally took the entire crew out to the shop where they made pigs of themselves at his expense. I have spoken.' A Prefect's Uncle P. G. Wodehouse Cindeesan 16 18 00h 4.18 p.m. Put Toby into his cage The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 16 20 00h 4.20 p.m. Watch television or a video The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 16 20 00h At twenty minutes past four - or to put it another blunter way an hour and twenty minutes past what seemed to be all reasonable hope - the unmarried bride her head down a parent stationed on either side of her was helped out of the building... Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters J. D. Salinger silentprinter 16 23 00h They were hurrying west trying to reach the river before sunset. The warming-related 'adjustments' to Earth's orbit had shortened the winter days so that now in January sunset was taking place at 4.23. A visit from the goon squad Jennifer Egan AggieH 16 25 00h As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was putting in the horse. The Man with the Twisted Lip Arthur Conan-Doyle 16 30 00h She hung up on me at first then asked me whether I made a point of behaving like a 'small-time suburban punk' with women I had slept with. But after apologies insults laughter and tears Romeo and Juliet were to be seen together later that afternoon mushily holding hands in the dark at a four-thirty screening of L ove and Death at the National Film Theatre. Happy endings – for now at least. Essays in Love Alain de Botton @alanawhitman 16 30 00h "It is only a quarter past four shewing his watch and you are not now in Bath. No theatre no rooms to prepare for. Half an hour at Northanger must be enough." Nothanger Abbey Jane Austen saintchanel 16 30 00h At half past four experiment Emily Dickinson 16 30 00h At four-thirty that afternoon in late January when I stepped into the parlour with Boo my dog Hutch was in his favourite armchair scowling at the television which he had muted. Odd Hours Dean Koontz 16 30 00h I leave the office at four thirty head up to Xclusive where I work out on free weights for an hour then taxi across the park to Gio's in the Pierre Room for a facial a manicure and if time permits a pedicure. American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis Sal Paradise650 16 35 00h The Voice shut itself off with a click and then reopened conversation by announcing the arrival at Platform 9 of the 4.35 from Birmingham and Wolverhampton. 4.50 from Paddington Agatha Christie stjerome1st 16 45 00h The next day Bill took only ten minutes of the twenty-minute break allotted for the afternoon and left at fifteen minutes before five. He parked the car in the lot just as Arlene hopped down from the bus. He waited until she entered the building then ran up the stairs to catch her as she stepped out of the elevator. "Bill God you scared me. You're early " she said. He shrugged. "Nothing to do at work " he said. She let him use her key to open the door. He looked at the door across the hall before following her inside."Let's go to bed " he said."Now " She laughed. "What's gotten into you " "Nothing. Take your dress off." He grabbed for her awkwardly and she said "Good God Bill " He unfastened his belt. Later they sent out for Chinese food and when it arrived they ate hungrily without speaking and listened to records. Where I'm Calling From Raymond Carver Cindeesan 16 50 00h They had all frozen at the same time on a snowy night seven years before and after that it was always ten minutes to five in the castle. The 13 Clocks James Thurber drewtrain 16 54 00h It was 1654 local time when the Red October broke the surface of the Atlantic Ocean for the first time forty-seven miles southeast of Norfolk. There was no other ship in sight. The Hunt for Red October Tom Clancy Cindeesan 16.00 00h Miss Douce took Boylan's coin struck boldly the cashregister. It clanged. Clock clacked. Fair one of Egypt teased and sorted in the till and hummed and handed coins in change. Look to the west. A clack. For me. —What time is that asked Blazes Boylan. Four O'clock. Lenehan small eyes ahunger on her humming bust ahumming tugged Blazes Boylan's elbowsleeve. —Let's hear the time he said. Ulysses James Joyce terribleman 16.05 00h IT was exactly five minutes past four as Mr. Robert Audley stepped out upon the platform at Shoreditch and waited placidly until such time as his dogs and his portmanteau should be delivered up to the attendant porter who had called his cab and undertaken the general conduct of his affairs with that disinterested courtesy which does such infinite credit to a class of servitors who are forbidden to accept the tribute of a grateful public. Robert Audley waited with consummate patience for a considerable time but as the express was generally a long train and as there were a great many passengers from Norfolk carrying guns and pointers and other paraphernalia of a critical description it took a long while to make matters agreeable to all claimants and even the barrister's seraphic indifference to mundane affairs nearly gave way. Lady Audley's Secret Mary Elizabeth Braddon frustrated artist 16.15 00h "I remember the dread with which I at quarter past four Let go with a bang behind me our house front door" False Security John Betjeman thefatcontroller 16.50 00h "The train standing at Platform 3 " the Voice told her "is the 4.50 for Brackhampton Milchester Waverton Carvil Junction Roxeter and stations to Chadmouth. Passengers for Brackhampton and Milchester travel at the rear of the train. Passengers for Vanequay change at Roxeter." The voice shut itself off with a click 4.50 from Paddington Agatha Christie stjerome1st 17 00 00h The rain stopped around 5 p.m. and a few of those people who were out and about expressed mild surprise when the rainbow failed to fade. Mortality 'The Rainbow' Nicholas Royle scrapwings 17 00 00h A las cinco de la tarde. Eran las cinco en punto de la tarde. Un niño trajo la blanca sábana a las cinco de la tarde. Una espuerta de cal ya prevenida a Federico las cinco de la tarde. Lo demás era muerte y sólo muerte a las cinco de la tarde. LLANTO PER IGNACIO SANCHEZ MEJIAS LA COGIDA Y LA MUERTE García Lorca 1898 - 1936 Bronte 17 00 00h About five the Abbot a young Manchester terrier began chirruping. He stood on the body of his owner Flora with his forepaws on the sill of the balcony stared through the green rattan blinds and trembled. He could see the farmer in the field and Edward asleep on the next balcony. The People With the Dogs Christina Stead frollostone 17 00 00h The rest was death and death alone at five in the afternoon. Lo demas era muerte y solo muerte a las cinco de la tarde Poem Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias Federicio Lorca Dumspirospero 17 00 00h At five o'clock that afternoon while Barbara waited in a taxi Harold went into the convent in Auteuil and explained to the nun who sat in the concierge's glass cage that Mme. Straus-Muguet was expecting them. He assumed that men were not permitted any further and that they would all three go out for tea. The Chateau William Maxwell KeturahB 17 00 00h Four o clock has just struck. Good Arrangement revision reading from four to five. Short snooze ...from five to six. Affair of agent and The Woman in White - The Story Continued Wilkie Collins 17 00 00h 5.00 p.m. Read a book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 17 00 00h ERE THE HALF-HOUR ended five o'clock struck school was dismissed and all were gone into the refectory to tea. I now ventured to descend it was deep dusk I retired into a corner and sat down on the floor. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte JLM 17 00 00h At five o’clock adieux were waved and the ponderous liner edged away from the long pier slowly turned its nose seaward discarded its tug and headed for the widening water spaces that led to old world wonders. By night the outer harbour was cleared and late passengers watched the stars twinkling above an unpolluted ocean. The Horror at Red Hook H. P. Lovecraft gb steve 17 00 00h He found it harder to concentrate on drills that afternoon and when he left the building at five o'clock he was still so worried that he walked straight into someone just outside the door. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone JK Rowling kbergen 17 00 00h It was nearly five in the evening when the cook came aboard. He did not have the cabbages A Single Pebble John Hershey Proto Plasm 17 00 00h Until five o' clock there was no sign of life from the room. Then he rang for his servant and ordered a cold bath. Embers Sandor Marai Proto Plasm 17 00 00h But I took the mixture at five o'clock in the afternoon. I run my tongue over my dry mouth. I feel dizzy. I know this dizziness it's because I haven't had a cigarette for hours. The End of Mr Y Scarlett Thomas Elsje Heuff 17 00 00h We motored I remember leaving London in the morning in a heavy shower of rain coming to Manderley about five o'clock in time for tea. I can see myself now unsuitably dressed as usual although a bride of seven weeks in a tan-coloured stockinette frock a small fur known as a stone marten round my neck and over all a shapeless mackintosh far too big for me and dragging to my ankles. Rebecca Daphne du Maurier @alanawhitman 17 00 00h The English clock strikes 17 English strokes. MRS. SMITH There it's nine o'clock. The Bald Soprano La cantatrice chauve Eugène Ionesco lluviadelanoche 17 05 00h He went up to his coachman who was dozing on the box in the shadow already lengthening of a thick lime-tree he admired the shifting clouds of midges circling over the hot horses and waking the coachman he jumped into the carriage and told him to drive to Bryansky’s. It was only after driving nearly five miles that he had sufficiently recovered himself to look at his watch and realise that it was half-past five and he was late. Anna Karenina L Tolstoy saintchanel 17 10 00h Hours later at ten minutes past five Saturday afternoon Nora and Travis and Jim Keene crowded in front of the mattress on which Einstein lay. The dog had just taken a few more ounces of water. He looked at them with interest too. Travis tried to decide if those large brown eyes still had the strange depth uncanny alertness and undoglike awareness that he had seen in them so many times before. Damn. He was not sure—and his uncertainty scared him. Jim examined Einstein noting aloud that his eyes were clearer almost normal and that his temperature was still falling. “Heart’s sounding a little better too.” Worn out by the ten-minute examination Einstein flopped onto his side and issued a long weary sigh. In a moment he dozed again. Watchers Dean Koontz Cindeesan 17 15 00h When August Bach emerged from the gloomy chill of the air-conditioned Divisional Fighter Control bunker it was 17 15 hrs CET. The day had ripened into one of those mellow summer afternoons when the air is warm and sweet like soft toffee and anyone with an ounce of sense is reclining in the grass smelling the honeysuckle and wild strawberries half listening to the insects and watching blues and brimstones fluttering fast enough to avoid the swallows above them that glide and wheel and wait and wait. Bomber Len Deighton Mr Thing 17 20 00h The Meeting was listed as starting at and it was only around 1720 and Hal thought the voices might signify some sort of pre-Meeting orientation for people who've come for the first time sort of tentatively just to scout the whole enterprise out so he doesn't knock. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace translated 17 23 00h "I was wondering if we could meet for a drink." "What for " "Just for a chat. Do you know the Royal batsman near Central Station We could meet tomorrow at five " "Five twenty-three " I said to exert some control over the situation. A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz AggieH 17 25 00h It was five-twenty-five when I pulled up in front of the library. Still early for our date so I got out of the car and took a stroll down the misty streets. In a coffee shop watched a golf match on television then I went to an entertainment center and played a video game. The object of the game was to wipe out tanks invading from across the river. I was winning at first but as the game went on the enemy tanks bred like lemmings crushing me by sheer number and destroying my base. An on-screen nuclear blast took care of everything followed by the message game over insert coin. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami cindeesan 17 30 00h THE COUNTESS OLENSKA had said “after five” and at half after the hour Newland Archer rang the bell of the peeling stucco house with a giant wisteria throttling its feeble cast-iron balcony which she had hired far down West Twenty-third Street from the vagabond Medora. The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton werblina 17 30 00h It was half-past five before Holmes returned. He was bright eager and in excellent spirits a mood which in his case alternated with fits of the blackest depression. The Sign Of Four Arthur Conan Doyle CMS 17 40 00h It's five-forty now. The party's at six. By about ten past the eleventh floor should be clearing. Arnold is a very popular partner no one's going to miss his farewell speech if they can help it. Plus at Carter Spink parties the speeches always happen early on so people can get back to work if they need to. And while everyone's listening I'll slip down to Arnold's office. It should work. It has to work. As I stare at my own bizarre reflection I feel a grim resolve hardening inside me. He's not going to get away with everyone thinking he's a cheery harmless old teddy bear. He's not going to get away with it. The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella Cindeesan 17 45 00h Janice is not waiting for him in the lounge or beside the pool when at last around 5.45 they come home from playing the par-5 eighteenth. Instead one of the girls in their green and white uniforms comes over and tells him that his wife wants him to call home. Rabbit Is Rich John Updike translated 17 48 00h Father came home at 5 48 p.m. I heard him come through the front door. Then he came into the living room. He was wearing a lime green and sky blue check shirt and there was a double knot on one of his shoes but not on the other. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 17 50 00h "What time is it Jack " "Ten to six" "Ten more minutes then." I shuffle the cards. "Time for a quick game of rummy " Callum and Jack in Noughts and Crosses before Callum's hanging Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman RachelG 17 54 00h It was 5 54 pm when Father came back into the living room. He said 'What is this " but he said it very quietly and I didn't realise that he was angry because he wasn't shouting. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 17 55 00h "five minutes to six" The Deferred Appointment Algernon Blackwood 17 55 00h The wind moaned and sang dismally catching the ears and lifting the shabby coat-tails of Mr Mortimer Jenkyn 'Photographic Artist' as he stood outside and put the shutters up with this own cold hands in despair of further trade. It was five minutes to six. The Deferred Appointment Algernon Blackwood 18 00 00h "When he arrived it was nearly six o'clock and the sun was setting full and warm and the red light streamed in through the window and gave more colour to the pale cheeks." Dracula Bram Stoker Violet_apple 18 00 00h Although it was only six o'clock the night was already dark. The fog made thicker by its proximity to the Seine blurred every detail with its ragged veils punctured at various distances by the reddish glow of lanterns and bars of light escaping from illuminated windows. Le Club des Hachichins Théophile Gautier quarthadast 18 00 00h Leon waited all day for six o'clock to arrive when he got to the inn he found no one there but Monsieur Binet already at the table. Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert BelfastKoala 18 00 00h Four o clock has just struck. Good Arrangement revision reading from four to five. Short snooze ...from five to six. Affair of agent and sealed letter from seven to eight. At eight en route. The Woman in White - The Story Continued Wilkie Collins 18 00 00h Oh oh oh. Six o'clock and the master not home yet The skin of our teeth Thornton Wilder 18 00 00h By Six the Flood had done— No Tumult there had been Emily Dickinson 18 00 00h 6.00 p.m. Have tea The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 18 00 00h The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. Preludes T S Eliot dougiedownunder 18 00 00h 'On Tuesday he said. - It's Thursday evening. So that's what two days ago basically. Why am I only being told now - They must have thought you weren't interested. That might well be but in that case they were wrong. Why shouldn't he be interested in knowing when his father died He had certainly never said he wasn't. It was his father for fuck's sake you ought to know when your father is dead - On Tuesday he said again. - At six. My translation Med Venlig Deltagelse Condolences Erling Jepsen AJ Jansson 18 00 00h King Richard What is o'clock Catesby It is six o'clock full supper time. King Richard I will not sup tonight. Give me some ink and paper. Richard III William Shakespeare Irv 18 00 00h When the bells of Calvary Church struck six she saw Mr and Mrs Biggs hurrying down the front stoop rushing off to the shops before they closed. The Interpretation Of Murder Jed Rubenfeld crumbs 18 06 00h Above it all rose the Houses of Parliament with the hands of the clock stopped at three minutes past six. It was difficult to believe that all that meant nothing any more that now it was just a pretentious confection that could decay in peace. The Day of the Triffids John Wyndham 18 10 00h 'Let me see now. You had a drink at the Continental at six ten.' 'Yes.' 'And at six forty-five you were talking to another journalist at the door of the Majestic ' 'Yes Wilkins. I told you all this Vigot before. That night.' The Quiet American Graham Greene Oskar101 18 15 00h "At a quarter past six he was through with them." The Photograph Penelope Lively cris.cain 18 15 00h 'Quarter past six ' said Tony. 'He's bound to have told her by now.' A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh G22 18 25 00h At twenty-five past six I go into the bathroom and have a wash then while the Old Lady's busy in the kitchen helping Chris with the washing up I get my coat and nip out down the stairs. A Kind of Loving Stan Barstow DennisPreston 18 30 00h It is six thirty. Now the dark night and the deafening racket of the crickets again engulf the garden and the veranda all around the house Jealousy Alain Robbe-Grillet DickonBroom 18 30 00h AT five o'clock the two ladies retired to dress and at half past six Elizabeth was summoned to dinner. Pride Prejudice ch. 8 Jane Austen Bronte 18 30 00h "At six-thirty I left the bar and walked outside. It was getting dark and the big Avenida looked cool and graceful. On the other side were homes that once looked out on the beach. Now they looked out on hotels and most of them had retreated behind tall hedges and walls that cut them off from the street." The Rum Diary Hunter S. Thompson 18 30 00h 6.30 p.m. Watch television or a video The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 18 35 00h And then it was 6.35 pm and I heard Father come home in his van and I moved the bed up against the door so he couldn't get in and he came into the house and he and Mother shouted at each other. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 18 36 00h Kaldren pursues me like luminescent shadow. He has chalked up on the gateway '96 688 365 498 702'. Should confuse the mail man. Woke 9 05. To sleep 6 36. The Voices of Time JG Ballard The Golux 18 40 00h Having to change 'buses I allowed plenty of time — in fact too much for we arrived at twenty minutes to seven and Franching so the servant said had only just gone up to dress. However he was down as the clock struck seven he must have dressed very quickly. Diary of a Nobody George Weedon Grossmith JLM 18 45 00h "Six forty-five " called Louie. "Did you hear Ming " he asked "did you hear " "Yes Taddy I heard." "What is it ' asked Tommy. "The new baby listen the new baby." The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead frollostone 18 45 00h 'Let me see now. You had a drink at the Continental at six ten.' 'Yes.' 'And at six forty-five you were talking to another journalist at the door of the Majestic ' 'Yes Wilkins. I told you all this Vigot before. That night.' The Quiet American Graham Greene Oskar101 18 45 00h It was a quarter to seven when I letr myself into the office and clicked the light on and picked a piece of paper off the floor. It was a notice from the Green Feather Messenger Service ... The High Window Raymond Chandler jrsd 18 50 00h It was time to go see the Lady. When we arrived at her house at ten minutes before seven o'clock Damaronde answered the door. Boy's Life Robert R. McCammon Ruthenium 18 50 00h At ten minutes to seven Dulcie was ready. She looked at herself in the wrinkly mirror. The reflection was satisfactory. The dark blue dress fitting without a wrinkle the hat with its jaunty black feather the but-slightly-soiled gloves all representing self- denial even of food itself were vastly becoming. Dulcie forgot everything else for a moment except that she was beautiful and that life was about to lift a corner of its mysterious veil for her to observe its wonders. No gentleman had ever asked her out before. Now she was going for a brief moment into the glitter and exalted show. The Four Million O. Henry Cindeesan 18 55 00h '... You had no reason to think the times important. Indeed how suspicious it would be if you had been completely accurate.' 'Haven't I been ' 'Not quite. It was five to seven that you talked to Wilkins.' 'Another ten minutes.' 'Of course. As I said. And it had only just struck six when you arrived at the Continental.' The Quiet American Graham Greene Oskar101 18 55 00h The day of the play arrived "opening night" we called it though there would be no others. In an improvised "dressing room" behind the stage we actors sat on folding chairs. The rest of the eight graders were already onstage standing in a big semicircle. The play was set to begin at seven o'clock and finish before sunset. It was 6 55. Beyond the flats we could hear the hockey field filling up. the low rumble got steadily louder - voices footsteps the creaking of bleachers the slamming of car doors in the parking lot. We were each dressed in a floor-length robe tie-dyed black gray and white. The Obscure Object however was wearing a white robe. Mr. da Silva's concept was minimal no maekup no masks. Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Sal Paradise650 18 58 00h "We opened the door easy and then stampeded for the front. Part of the gang was lined up at the bar part of 'em was passing over the drinks and two or three was peeping out the door and window and taking shots at the marshal's crowd. The room was so full of smoke we got half-way to the front door before they noticed us. Then I heard Berry Trimble's voice somewhere yell out "'How'd that Buck Caperton get in here ' and he skinned the side of my neck with a bullet. I reckon he felt bad over that miss for Berry's the best shot south of the Southern Pacific Railroad. But the smoke in the saloon was some too thick for good shooting. "Me and Perry smashed over two of the gang with our table legs which didn't miss like the guns did and as we run out the door I grabbed a Winchester from a fellow who was watching the outside and I turned and regulated the account of Mr. Berry. "Me and Perry got out and around the corner all right. I never much expected to get out but I wasn't going to be intimidated by that married man. According to Perry's idea checkers was the event of the day but if I am any judge of gentle recreations that little table-leg parade through the Gray Mule saloon deserved the head-lines in the bill of particulars. "'Walk fast ' says Perry 'it's two minutes to seven and I got to be home by—' "'Oh shut up ' says I. 'I had an appointment as chief performer at an inquest at seven and I'm not kicking about not keeping it.' Roads of Destiny O. Henry Cindeesan 18.15 00h "I checked the time on the corner of my screen. 6.15. pm I was never going to finish my essay in forty-five minutes Girl Missing Sophie McKenzie ella 18.33 00h Every evening Michel took the train home changed at Esbly and usually arrived in Crécy on the 6.33pm train where Annabelle would be waiting at the station Atomised Michel Houellebecq terribleman 18.40 00 Amy What's that I thought I saw someone pass the window. What time is it Charles Nearly twenty to seven. The Family Reunion TS Eliot thefatcontroller 19 00 00h Twas about seven o'clock at night And the wind it blew with all its might And the rain came pouring down And the dark clouds seem'd to frown The Tay Bridge Disaster William McGonagall silentprinter 19 00 00h By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile. The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Sarah Churchwell 19 00 00h t was seven o'clock when we got into the coupé with him and started for Long Island. ... So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Sarah Churchwell 19 00 00h 7.00 p.m. Do maths practice The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 19 00 00h And so it was that for a long time afterwards when I lay awake at night and revived old memories of Combray I saw no more of it than this sort of luminous panel sharply defined against a vague and shadowy background like the panels which a Bengal fire or some electric sign will illuminate and dissect from the front of a building the other parts of which remain plunged in darkness broad enough at its base the little parlour the dining-room the alluring shadows of the path along which would come M. Swann the unconscious author of my sufferings the hall through which I would journey to the first step of that staircase so hard to climb which constituted all by itself the tapering 'elevation' of an irregular pyramid and at the summit my bedroom with the little passage through whose glazed door Mamma would enter in a word seen always at the same evening hour isolated from all its possible surroundings detached and solitary against its shadowy background the bare minimum of scenery necessary like the setting one sees printed at the head of an old play for its performance in the provinces to the drama of my undressing as though all Combray had consisted of but two floors joined by a slender staircase and as though there had been no time there but seven o'clock at night. I must own that I could have assured any questioner that Combray did include other scenes and did exist at other hours than these. In Search of Lost Time Swann's Way Marcel Proust terribleman 19 00 00h About seven o’clock in the evening she had died and her frantic husband had made a frightful scene in his efforts to kill West whom he wildly blamed for not saving her life. Friends had held him when he drew a stiletto but West departed amidst his inhuman shrieks curses and oaths of vengeance. Herbert West - Reanimator H. P. Lovecraft gb steve 19 00 00h Edward had been allowed to see me only from seven till nine-thirty pm always inside the confines of my home and under the supervision of my dad's unfailingly crabby glare. New Moon Stephenie Meyer nightwriter 19 00 00h It was seven o'clock and by this time she was not very far from Raveloe but she was not familiar enough with those monotonous lanes to know how near she was to her journey's end. She needed comfort and she knew but one comforter - the familiar demon in her bosom but she hesitated a moment after drawing out the black remnant before she raised it to her lips. Silas Marner George Eliot cm1984 19 10 00h The party was to begin at seven. The invitations gave the hour as six-thirty because the famly knew everyone would come a little late so as not to be the first to arrive. At seven-ten not a soul had come somewhat acrimoniously the family discussed the advantages and disadvantages of tardiness Elvira who prided herself on her punctuality declared it was an unforgiveable discourtesy to leave people waiting Julia repeating the words of her late husband replied that visitors who arrived late showed their consideration since if everyone arrives a little late it's more comfortable all around and no one has to feel rushed. By seven-fifteen not another soul could squeeze into the house. The elderly lady Jorge Luis Borges transl. Andrew Hurley nilpferd 19 10 00h He had already got to the point where by rocking more strongly he maintained his equilibrium with difficulty and very soon he would finally have to make a final decision for in five minutes it would be a quarter past seven. Then there was a ring at the door of the apartment. “That’s someone from the office ” he told himself and he almost froze while his small limbs only danced around all the faster. For one moment everything remained still. “They aren’t opening ” Gregor said to himself caught up in some absurd hope. Metamorphosis Franz Kafka DeanCarroll 19 10 00h But every morning even if there's been a nighttime session and he has only slept two hours he gets up at six and reads his paper while he drinks a strong cup of coffee. In this way Papa constructs himself every day. The Elegance of the Hedgehog Muriel Barbery Parisa 19 11 00h Good you said. Run or you won't get a seat. See you soon. Your voice was reassuring. 19 11 00 the clock said. I put the phone back on its hook and I ran. The seat I got almost the last one in the carriage was opposite a girl who started coughing as soon as there weren't any other free seats I could move to. She looked pale and the cough rattled deep in her chest as she punched numbers into her mobile. Hi she said cough . I'm on the train. No I've got a cold. A cold cough . Yeah really bad. Yeah awful actually. Hello cough Hello The Whole Story and Other Stories Ali Smith cindeesan 19 15 00h The party was to begin at seven. The invitations gave the hour as six-thirty because the famly knew everyone would come a little late so as not to be the first to arrive. At seven-ten not a soul had come somewhat acrimoniously the family discussed the advantages and disadvantages of tardiness Elvira who prided herself on her punctuality declared it was an unforgiveable discourtesy to leave people waiting Julia repeating the words of her late husband replied that visitors who arrived late showed their consideration since if everyone arrives a little late it's more comfortable all around and no one has to feel rushed. By seven-fifteen not another soul could squeeze into the house. The elderly lady Jorge Luis Borges transl. Andrew Hurley nilpferd 19 15 00h Cell count down to 400 000. Woke 8 10. To sleep 7 15. Appear to have lost my watch without realising it had to drive into town to buy another. The Voices of Time JG Ballard The Golux 19 16 00h “Sixteen past seven PM That's when he came into the store or when he left after the fact ” The Last Precinct Patricia Cornwell martinblank 19 19 00h … And it was me who spent about three hours this afternoon arguing one single contract. The term was best endeavors. The other side wanted to use reasonable efforts. In the end we won the point- but I can't feel my usual triumph. All I know is it's seven-nineteen and in eleven minutes I'm supposed to be halfway across town sitting down to dinner at Maxim's with my mother and brother Daniel. I'll have to cancel. My own birthday dinner. The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella cindeesan 19 20 00h The clock read seven-twenty but I felt no hunger. You'd think I might have wanted to eat something after the day I'd had but I cringed at the very thought of food. I was short of sleep my gut was slashed and my apartment was gutted. There was no room for appetite. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami cindeesan 19 30 00h At half past seven element Emily Dickinson 19 30 00h "But now he was close - here was the house here were the gates. Somewhere a clock beat a single chime. 'What is it really half-past seven That's impossible it must be fast '" Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky TheSuperPope 19 30 00h The telephone call came at 7.30 on the evening of March 18th a Saturday the eve of the noisy colourful festival that the town held in honour of Saint Joseph the carpenter - A Simple Story Leonardo Sciascia Chris Real 19 42 00h I glance at my watch as we speed along the Strand. Seven forty-two. I'm starting to feel quite excited. The street outside is still bright and warm and tourists are walking along in T-shirts and shorts pointing at the High Court. It must have been a gorgeous summer's day. Inside the air-conditioned Carter Spink building you have no idea what the weather in the real world is doing. The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella cindeesan 19 45 00h He taught me that if I had to meet someone for an appointment I must refuse to follow the 'stupid human habit' of arbitrarily choosing a time based on fifteen-minute intervals. "Never meet people at 7 45 or 6 30 Jasper but pick times like 7 12 and 8 03 " A fraction of the whole Steve Toltz 19 50 00h He waited until nearly eight because around seven there were always more people coming in and out of the house than at other times. At ten to eight he strolled downstairs to make sure that Signora Buffi was not pottering around in the hall and that her door was not open and to make sure there really was no one in Freddie's car though he had gone down in the middle of the afternoon to look at the car and see if it was Freddie's. The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith LizzieC 19 53 00h Wednesday 11 th December 1963. 7.53 p.m. 'Help me. You've got to help me.' The woman's voice quavered on the edge of tears. The duty constable who had picked up the phone heard a hiccuping gulp as if the caller was struggling to speak. A Place of Execution Val McDermid orlando 20 00 00h The clock struck eight. Had it been ten Elinor would have been convinced that at that moment she heard a carriage driving up to the house and so strong was the persuasion that she did in spite of the almost impossibility of their being already come that she moved into the adjoining dressing-closet and opened a window-shutter to be satisfied of the truth. She instantly saw that her ears had not deceived her. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen Benedicte 20 00 00h Strapped noosed nighing his hour He stood and counted them and cursed his luck And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength and struck. Eight O'Clock A.E. Housman Hackwriter 20 00 00h I have been drunk just twice in my life and the second time was that afternoon so everything that happened has a dim hazy cast over it. although until after eight o'clock the apartment was full of cheerful sun. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald BelfastKoala 20 00 00h Eight o'clock Eight o'clock A.E Housman 20 00 00h She looked at her watch- it was eight o'clock The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald 20 00 00h 8.00 p.m. Have a bath The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 20 00 00h That day he forgot to go to dinner he noticed the fact at eight in the evening and as it was too late to go to the Rue St Jaques he ate a lump of bread. Les Miserables Victor Hugo kbergen 20 00 00h At eight o'clock that evening a Saturday Pamela Chamcha stood with Jumpy Joshi - who had refused to let her go unaccompanied - next to the Photo-Me machine in a corner of the main concourse of Euston station feeling ridiculously conspiratorial. Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie kbergen 20 00 00h Kuniang made her appearance in my study just before eight o' clock arrayed in what had once ben a "party frock". The Maker of Heavenly Trousers Daniel Vare Proto Plasm 20 00 00h Arthur thought he could even bear to listen to the album of bagpipe music he had won. It was eight o'clock and he decided he would make himself force himself to listen to the whole record before he phoned her. So long and thanks for all the fish Douglas Adams Gotmytowel 20 00 00h Freud had me knock on Jung's door to no avail. They waited until eight then set off for Brill's without him. The Interpretation Of Murder Jed Rubenfeld crumbs 20 00 00h 'TIS eight o'clock a clear March night The moon is up the sky is blue The owlet in the moonlight air Shouts from nobody knows where He lengthens out his lonely shout Halloo halloo a long halloo "The Idiot Boy " from Complete Poetical Works William Wordsworth werblina 20 00 00h 'It is the twenty-third of June nineteen seventy-five and it is eight o'clock in the evening. Seated at his jigsaw puzzle Bartlebooth has just died. On the tablecloth somewhere in the crepuscular sky of the four hundred and thirty-ninth puzzle the black hole of the sole piece not yet filled in has the almost perfect shape of an X. But the ironical thing which could have been foreseen long ago is that the piece the dead man holds between his fingers is shaped like a W.'' Life A User's Manual Georges Perec adamlawrence86 20 04 00h The earth seems to cast its darkness upward into the air. The farm country is somber at night. He is grateful when the lights of Lankaster merge with his dim beams. He stops at a diner whose clock says 8.04. He hadn't intended to eat until he got out of the state. Rabbit Run John Updike translated 20 07 00h Bennie pulled the transcripts for that night. The first call had come in at 8 07 with a positive ID. Mistaken Identity 20 07 00h And I could hear that there were fewer people in the little station when the train wasn't there so I opened my eyes and I looked at my watch and it said 8 07 pm and I had been sitting on the bench for approximately 5 hours but it hadn't seemed like approximately 5 hours except that my bottom hurt and I was hungry and thirsty. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 20 10 00h At 2010h. on 1 April Y.D.A.U. the medical attache is still watching the unlabelled entertainment cartridge. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace Eddiemunro 20 14 00h In the basement switching room of the telephone company Agents Rick Olbier and Denny Jones were tending the NSA’s electronic tapping and tracing equipment monitoring Garrison Dilworth’s office and home lines. It was dull duty and they played cards to make the time pass two-hand pinochle and five-hundred rummy neither of which was a good game but the very idea of two-hand poker repelled them. When a call came through to Dilworth’s home number at fourteen minutes past eight o’clock Olbier and Jones reacted with far more excitement than the situation warranted because they were desperate for action. Olbier dropped his cards on the floor and Jones threw his on the table and they reached for the two headsets as if this was World War II and they were expecting to overhear a top-secret conversation between Hitler and Goring. Watchers Dean Koontz Cindeesan 20 15 00h 8.15 p.m. Get changed into pyjamas The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 20 15 00h Natsha I was looking to see if there wasn't a fire. It's Shrovetide and the servant is simply beside herself I must look out that something doesn't happen. When I came through the dining-room yesterday midnight there was a candle burning. I couldn't get her to tell me who had lighted it. Puts down her candle What's the time Andrey Looks at his watch A quarter past eight. Natasha And Olga and Irina aren't in yet. The poor things are still at work. Olga at the teachers' council Irina at the telegraph office... sighs I said to your sister this morning "Irina darling you must take care of yourself." But she pays no attention. Did you say it was a quarter past eight The Three Sisters Anton Chekhov Masha 20 15 00h "Cannot locate operating instructions for video " Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 20 20 00h 8.20 p.m. Play computer games The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 20 20 00h Lupin’s rooms looked very nice but the dinner was I thought a little too grand especially as he commenced with champagne straight off. I also think Lupin might have told us that he and Mr. and Mrs. Murray Posh and Miss Posh were going to put on full evening dress. Knowing that the dinner was only for us six we never dreamed it would be a full dress affair. I had no appetite. It was quite twenty minutes past eight before we sat down to dinner. At six I could have eaten a hearty meal. I had a bit of bread-and-butter at that hour feeling famished and I expect that partly spoiled my appetite Diary of a Nobody George and Weedon Grossmith JLM 20 27 00h At seven-and-twenty minutes past eight Mrs Lofthouse was seated at Aurora's piano in the first agonies of a prelude in six flats a prelude which demanded such extraordinary uses of the left hand across the right and the right over the left and such exercise of the thumbs in all positions -in which according to all orthodox theories of the pre-Thalberg-ite school no pianist's thumbs should ever be used - that Mrs. mellish felt that her friend's attention was not very likely to wander far from the keys. Aurora Floyd Mary Elizabeth Braddon frustrated artist 20 29 30h … she said 'at exactly half-past eight you may be watching the middle upper window of the top floor. If I decide to forgive I will hang out of that window a white silk scarf. You will know by that that all is as was before and you may come to me. If you see no scarf you may consider that everything between us is ended forever.' That " concluded the young man bitterly "is why I have been watching that clock...” From the middle upper window blossomed in the dusk a waving snowy fluttering wonderful divine emblem of forgiveness and promised joy. By came a citizen rotund comfortable home-hurrying unknowing of the delights of waving silken scarfs on the borders of dimly-lit parks. "Will you oblige me with the time sir " asked the young man and the citizen shrewdly conjecturing his watch to be safe dragged it out and announced "Twenty-nine and a half minutes past eight sir." And then from habit he glanced at the clock in the tower and made further oration. "By George that clock's half an hour fast First time in ten years I've known it to be off. This watch of mine never varies a " But the citizen was talking to vacancy. He turned and saw his hearer a fast receding black shadow flying in the direction of a house with three lighted upper windows. The Four Million O. Henry Cindeesan 20 30 00h Alix took up a piece of needlework and began to stitch. Gerald read a few pages of his book. Then he glanced up at the clock and tossed the book away. "Half-past eight. Time to go down to the cellar and start work." The Listerdale mystery Agatha Christie stjerome1st 20 32 00h At eight o'clock the next evening Aunt Ellen took a quaint old gold ring from a moth-eaten case and gave it to Richard. "Wear it to-night nephew " she begged. "Your mother gave it to me. Good luck in love she said it brought. She asked me to give it to you when you had found the one you loved."Young Rockwall took the ring reverently and tried it on his smallest finger. It slipped as far as the second joint and stopped. He took it off and stuffed it into his vest pocket after the manner of man. And then he 'phoned for his cab. At the station he captured Miss Lantry out of the gadding mob at eight thirty-two. "We mustn't keep mamma and the others waiting " said she. "To Wallack's Theatre as fast as you can drive " said Richard loyally. They whirled up Forty-second to Broadway and then down the white- starred lane that leads from the soft meadows of sunset to the rocky hills of morning. The Four Million O. Henry Cindeesn 20 35 00h Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May arriving at Vienna early the next morning Dracula Bram Stoker Mt_Gilley 20 35 00h She paused reflectively. He was keenly interested now not a doubt of it. The murderer is bound to have an interest in murder. She had gambled on that and succeeded. She stole a glance at the clock. It was five and twenty to nine. The Listerdale mystery Agatha Christie stjerome1st 20 35 00h "Found operating instructions under Hello" Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 20 40 00h "Who is it " said the lady at the table. "Pip ma'am." "Pip " "Mr Pumblechook's boy ma'am. Come - to play." "Come nearer let me look at you. Come close." It was when I stood before her avoiding her eyes that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine. "Look at me " said Miss Havisham "You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born " I regret to state that I was not afraid of telling the enormous lie comprehended in the answer "No." Great Expectations Charles Dickens losingtheplot 20 40 00h "Point Remote Control" Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 20 42 00h "The hand at this moment pointed to 8.42. The players took up their cards but their eyes were constantly on the clock. One may safely say that however secure they might feel never had minutes seemed so long to them." Around the world in eighty days Jules Verne AggieH 20 43 00h '8.43 ' said Thomas Flanagan as he cut the cards placed before him by Gauthier Ralph. There was a moment's pause during which the spacious room was perfectly silent. Around the world in eighty days Jules Verne AggieH 20 44 00h The clock's pendulum beat every second with mathematical regularity and each player could count every sixtieth of a minute as it struck his ear. '8.44 ' said John Sullivan in a voice that betrayed his emotion. Only one minute more and the wager would be won. Around the world in eighty days Jules Verne AggieH 20 45 00h 'It's not impossible ' Phileas said quietly.'I bet you 20 000 pounds I could do it. If I leave this evening on the 8.45 train to Dover I can be back here at the Reform Club by 8.45 on Saturday 21 December. I'll get my passport stamped at every place i stop to prove I've been around the world.' Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne Charlotteyxx 20 45 00h Phileas Fogg thus kidnapped without having time to think left his house jumped into a cab promised a hundred pounds to the cabman and having run over two dogs and overturned five carriages reached the Reform Club. The clock indicated a quarter before nine when he appeared in the great saloon. Eighty Days Around the World Jules Verne JLM 20 45 00h Beaver arrived at quarter to nine in a state of high self-approval he had refused two invitations for dinner while dressing that evening he had cashed a cheque for ten pounds at his club he had booked a Divan table at Espinosa's. A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh G22 20 50 00h He was yes always home from work by 2050 on Thursdays. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace translated 20 50 00h all the clocks in London were striking ten minutes before nine. Around the world in eighty days Jules Verne 20 50 00h "Ah Diagram "Buttons for IMC functions". But what are IMC functions " Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 20 53 00h Only eight fifty-three. The partners' decision meeting starts in seven minutes. I'm not sure I can bear this. The Undomestic Goddess Sophie Kinsella cindeesan 20 55 00h "Decide to ignore that page" Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 20 57 00h "Wait " he said solemnly "till the clock strikes. I have wealth and power and knowledge above most men but when the clock strikes I am afraid. Stay by me until then. This woman shall be yours. You have the word of the hereditary Prince of Valleluna. On the day of your marriage I will give you $100 000 and a palace on the Hudson. But there must be no clocks in that palace they measure our follies and limit our pleasures. Do you agree to that " "Of course " said the young man cheerfully "they're a nuisance anyway always ticking and striking and getting you late for dinner." He glanced again at the clock in the tower. The hands stood at three minutes to nine. The Four Million O. Henry Cindeesan 20 58 00h "What time is it " she asked quiet definite hopeless. "Two minutes to nine " he replied telling the truth with a struggle. Sons and Lovers D H Lawrence saintchanel 20.02 00h `Yes I must go to the railway station and if he's not there then go there and catch him.' Anna looked at the railway timetable in the newspapers. An evening train went at two minutes past eight. `Yes I shall be in time.' She gave orders for the other horses to be put in the carriage and packed in a traveling bag the things needed for a few days. She knew she would never come back here again. Anna Karenina Lev Tolstoy frustrated artist 20.20 00h At 20.20 all ships had completed oiling. Hove to they had had the utmost difficulty in keeping position in that great wind but they were infinitely safer than in the open sea H.M.S. Ulysses Alistair MacLean DennisPreston 20.25 00h She sat down in her usual seat and smiled at her husband as he sank into his own chair opposite her. She was saved. It was only five and twenty past eight. The Listerdale mystery Agatha Christie stjerome1st 20.30 00h The bicycles go by in twos and threes - there's a dance on in Billy Brennan's barn tonight and there's the half-talk code of mysteries and the wink-and-elbow language of delight. Half-past eight and there is not a spot upon a mile of road no shadow thrown that might turn out a man or woman Inniskeen Road July Evening Patrick Kavanagh Blaydon 20.50 00h What did it mean by beginning to tick so loudly all of a sudden Its face indicated ten minutes to nine. Mrs Verloc cared nothing for time and the ticking went on. The Secret Agent 21 00 00h It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August—the most terrible August in the history of the world. One might have thought already that God's curse hung heavy over a degenerate world for there was an awesome hush and a feeling of vague expectancy in the sultry and stagnant air His Last Bow An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle DoyleMj 21 00 00h At 2100 at night it's cold out. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace translated 21 00 00h That night at nine the President addressed the nation...... All the President's Men Bernstein Woodward 21 00 00h Early November. It's nine o'clock. The Great Tits are banging against the window. my translation Out Stealing Horses Per Petterson AJ Jansson 21 00 00h Then he put on a grey jacket and left the flat to make his way to Praca da Alegria. It was already nine o'clock Pereira maintains. Pereira Maintains Antonio Tabucchi Raylr 21 00 00h 9.00 p.m. Watch television or a video The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 21 00 00h Standing in the chrome-and-tile desolation of the Polar-Shtern Kafeteria at nine o'clock on a Friday night in a snowstorm he's the loneliest Jew in the Sitka District. The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon Nicholas Bryant 21 00 00h On the evening before K.'s thirty-first birthday - it was about nine o'clock when there is a lull in the streets - two gentlemen came to his apartment. The Trial Franz Kafka HannahFreeman 21 10 00h " When you turn your recorder on you must adjust clock and the calendar.......Press red and nothing happens. Press numbers and nothing happens. Wish stupid video had never been invented" Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 21 15 00h I stride to the edge of the pavement and stick out my hand. During the next three minutes not a single car passes by. Not just no taxis. No vehicles at all. “Kind of quiet ” observes Jack at last. “Well this is really kind of a residential area. Antonio's is a bit of a one-off.” Outwardly I'm still quite calm. But inside I'm starting to panic. What are we going to do Should we try to walk to Clapham High Street But it's bloody miles away. I glance at my watch and am shocked to see that it's nine-fifteen. We've spent over an hour faffing about and we haven't even had a drink. And it's all my fault. I can't even organize one simple evening without its going catastrophically wrong. Can You Keep a Secret Sophie Kinsella cindeesan 21 20 00h 9.20 p.m. Have juice and a snack The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 21 25 00h "Aargh. Suddenly main menu is on TV saying Press 6. Realize was using telly remote control by mistake. Now News has come on" Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 21 28 00h From that moment on 9 28 in the evening June 18 1941 everything was different. Everything is Illuminated Jonathan Safran Foer kwillz 21 30 00h 9.30 p.m. Go to bed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 21 30 00h Forty-eight years old profoundly asleep at nine thirty on a Friday night - this is modern professional life. Saturday Ian Mc Ewan teomat 21 30 00h It's 9 30 p.m. already. I've gotta head uptown for my appointment with Pavel. Pavel is my shrink. He sees patients at night. He's a Czech Jew a survivor of Terezin and Auswitz. I see him once a week. Maus Art Spiegelman Elsje Heuff 21 35 00h The Sergeant jotted it down on a piece of paper. 'That checks up with his own story 9.35 p.m. Budd leaves the North dame arrives.' A Blunt Instrument Georgette Heyer @nostalgia4books 21 36 00h My backpack was already packed and I'd already gotten the other supplies together like the altimeter and the granola bars and the Swiss army knife I'd dug up in Central Park so there was nothing else to do. Mom tucked me in at 9 36. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer kwillz 21 45 00h But for some unfathomable reason-birth death the end of the universe and all things available to man-Cody Menhoff's was closed at 9 45 PM on a Thursday... Riven Rock T. C. Boyle Cindeesan 21 50 00h I passed out on to the road and saw by the lighted dial of a clock that it was ten minutes to ten. In front of me was a large building which displayed the magical name. Dubliners 'Araby' James Joyce scrapwings 21 57 00h "It sounds pretty interesting " said the policeman. "Rather a long time between meets though it seems to me. Haven't you heard from your friend since you left " "Well yes for a time we corresponded " said the other. "But after a year or two we lost track of each other. You see the West is a pretty big proposition and I kept hustling around over it pretty lively. But I know Jimmy will meet me here if he's alive for he always was the truest stanchest old chap in the world. He'll never forget. I came a thousand miles to stand in this door to-night and it's worth it if my old partner turns up." The waiting man pulled out a handsome watch the lids of it set with small diamonds. "Three minutes to ten " he announced. "It was exactly ten o'clock when we parted here at the restaurant door." The Four Million O. Henry Cindeesan 21.05 00 Nine o'clock. The beds warmed their hidden circuits for nights were cool here. Nine-five. A voice spoke from the study ceiling "Mrs. McClellan which poem would you like this evening " The house was silent. The voice said at last "Since you express no preference I shall select a poem at random." Quiet music rose to back the voice. "Sara Teasdale. As I recall your favorite…. "There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground And swallows circling with their shimmering sound And frogs in the pools singing at night And wild plum trees in tremulous white Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire And not one will know of the war not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind neither bird nor tree if mankind perished utterly And Spring herself when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone." The fire burned on the stone hearth and the cigar fell away into a mound of quiet ash on its tray. The empty chairs faced each other between the silent walls and the music played. At ten o'clock the house began to die. And there Will Come Soft Rains from The Martia Chronicles Ray Bradbury frustrated artist 21.30 00h The light in Mr. Green's kitchen snapped off at nine-thirty followed by the light in his bedroom at his usual ten o'clock. His house was the first on the street to go dark. A crime in the neighborhood Suzanne Berne 22 00 00h No one wanted to go to bed when at ten o'clock Mrs. March put by the last finished job and said "Come girls." Beth went to the piano and played the father's favorite hymn. All began bravely but broke down one by one till Beth was left alone singing with all her heart for to her music was always a sweet consoler. "Go to bed and don't talk for we must be up early and shall need all the sleep we can get. Good night my darlings " said Mrs. March as the hymn ended for no one cared to try another. They kissed her quietly and went to bed as silently as if the dear invalid lay in the next room. Beth and Amy soon fell asleep in spite of the great trouble but Meg lay awake thinking the most serious thoughts she had ever known in her short life. Jo lay motionless and her sister fancied that she was asleep till a stifled sob made her exclaim as she touched a wet cheek... "Jo dear what is it Are you crying about father " "No not now." "What then " "My... My hair " burst out poor Jo trying vainly to smother her emotion in the pillow. It did not seem at all comical to Meg who kissed and caressed the afflicted heroine in the tenderest manner. "I'm not sorry " protested Jo with a choke. "I'd do it again tomorrow if I could. It's only the vain part of me that goes and cries in this silly way. Don't tell anyone it's all over now. I thought you were asleep so I just made a little private moan for my one beauty. How came you to be awake " Little Women Louisa May Alcott Caitlin 22 00 00h 'The first night as soon as the corporal had conducted my uncle Toby up stairs which was about 10 - Mrs. Wadman threw herself into her arm chair and crossing her left knee with her right which formed a resting-place for her elbow she reclin'd her cheek upon the palm of her hand and leaning forwards ruminated until midnight upon both sides of the question.' The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman Laurence Sterne AggieH 22 00 00h Her body asserted itself with a restless movement of the knee and she stood up. 'Ten o'clock ' she remarked apparently finding the time on the ceiling. 'Time for this good girl to go to bed.' The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald BelfastKoala 22 00 00h I could not doubt that this was the BLACK SPOT and taking it up I found written on the other side in a very good clear hand this short message "You have till ten tonight." Location 288 Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson Peter Gill 22 00 00h The light in Mr. Green's kitchen snapped off at nine-thirty followed by the light in his bedroom at his usual ten o'clock. His house was the first on the street to go dark. A crime in the neighborhood Suzanne Berne 22 00 00h The grandfather clock in the State Room strikes ten times. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet David Mitchell yenal 22 00 00h They were alone then and theoretically free to do whatever they wanted but they went on eating the dinner they had no appetite for. Florence set down her knife and reached for Edward's hand and squeezed. From downstairs they heard the wireless the chimes of Big Ben at the start of the ten o'clock news. On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan jo_eyre 22 00 00h I went back into the library limp and exhausted. In a few minutes the telephone began ringing again. I did not do anything. I let it ring. I went and sat down at Maxim's feet. It went on ringing. I did not move. Presently it stopped as though cut suddenly in exasperation. The clock on the mantelpiece struck ten o'clock. Maxim put his arms round me and lifted me against him. We began to kiss one another feverishly desperately like guilty lovers who have not kissed before. Rebecca Daphne du Maurier @alanawhitman 22 00 00h By ten Quoyle was drunk. The crowd was enormous crushed together so densely that Nutbeem could not force his way down the hall or to the door and urinated on the remaining potato chips in the blue barrel setting a popular example. The Shipping News E. Annie Proulx Elsje Heuff 22 00 00h We let our upstairs room to a certain Mr. Goudsmit a divorced man in his thirties who appeared to have nothing to do on this particular evening we simply could not get rid of him without being rude he hung about until ten o'clock. Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank maggie 22 08 00h 'My watch is always a little fast ' I said. 'What time do you make it now ' 'Ten eight.' 'Ten eighteen by mine. You see.' The Quiet American Graham Greene Oskar101 22 10 00h That was the past and now I had just died on the narrow couch of a Paris lodging house and my wife was crouching on the floor crying bitterly. The white light before my left eye was growing dim but I remembered the room perfectly. On the left there was a chest of drawers on the right a mantelpiece surmounted by a damaged clock without a pendulum the hands of which marked ten minutes past ten. The window overlooked the Rue Dauphine a long dark street. All Paris seemed to pass below and the noise was so great that the window shook. The Death of Olivier Becaille Emile Zola Cindeesan 22 12 30h The Chinese women scuttled at an amazing rate given their size and the bags' size. It was c. 2212 30-40h. smack in the middle of the former Interval of Issues Resolution. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace translated 22 14 10h The shopping bags looked heavy and impressive thier weight making the Chinese women lean in slightly towards each other. Call it 2214 10h. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace translated 22 15 00h "Aargh Newsnight on in 15 minutes" Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 22 16 00h And also between 2216 and 2226 the ATHSCME giant fans off up at the Sunstrand Plaza within earshot were typically shut off for daily de-linting and it was quiet except for the big Ssshhh of a whole urban city's vehicular traffic. and maybe the odd E.W.D. airborne deliverer catapulted up off Concavityward its little string of lights arcing northeast and of course also the sirens both the Eurotrochaic sirens of ambulances and the regular U.S.-sounding sirens of the city's very Finest Protecting and Serving keeping the citizenry at bay and the winsome thing about sirens in the urban night is that unless they're right up close where the lights bathe you in red-blue-red-blue they always sound like they're terribly achingly far away and receding calling to you across an expanding gap. Either that or they're on your ass. No middle distance with sirens Lenz reflects walking along and scanning. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace t 22 17 00h "Casette will not go in" Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 22 18 00h 'My watch is always a little fast ' I said. 'What time do you make it now ' 'Ten eight.' 'Ten eighteen by mine. You see.' The Quiet American Graham Greene Oskar101 22 18 00h "pm Ah. Thelma and Louise is in there" Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 22 21 00h On a Saturday c. 2221h. Lenz found a miniature bird that had fallen out of some nest and was sitting bald and pencil-necked on the lawn of Unit #3 flapping ineffectually and went in with Green and ducked Green and went back outside to # 3's lawn and put the thing in a pocket and went in and put it down the garbage disposal in the kitchen sink of the kitchen but still felt largely impotent and unresolved. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace Alex Jenkins 22 21 00h "Thelma and Louise will not come out" Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 22 21 00h "Frenziedly press all buttons. Cassette comes out and goes back in again" Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 22 25 00h "Got new cassette in now. Right. Turn to "Recording.................. Aargh Newsnight is starting" Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 22 26 00h As always consciousness returned to me progressively from the edges of my field of vision. The first things to claim recognition were the bathroom door emerging from the far right and a lamp from the far left from which my awareness gradually drifted inward like ice flowing together toward the middle of a lake. In the exact center of my visual field was the alarm clock hands pointing to ten-twenty-six. An alarm clock I received as a memento of somebody's wedding. One of those clever designs. You had to press the red button on the left side of the clock and the black button on the right side simultaneously to stop it from ringing which was said to preempt the reflex of killing the alarm and falling back to sleep. True in order to press both left and right buttons simultaneously I did have to sit upright in bed with the thing in my lap and by then I had made a step into the waking world. Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World Haruki Murakami cindeesan 22 30 00h She looked at the clock it was ten thirty. If she could get there quickly on the subway then she could be at his house in less than an hour maybe a bit longer if the late trains did not come so often. Brooklyn p. 181 hardback ed Colm Toibin Bronte 22 31 00h And later on at 10.31 pm I went out onto the balcony to find out whether I could see any stars but there weren't any because of all the clouds and what is called Light Pollution which is light from streetlights and car headlights and floodlights and lights in buildings reflecting off tiny particles in the atmosphere and getting in the way of light from the stars. So I went back inside. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 22 31 00h And later on at 10.31 pm I went out onto the balcony to find out whether I could see any stars but there weren't any because of all the clouds and what is called Light Pollution which is light from streetlights and car headlights and floodlights and lights in buildings reflecting off tiny particles in the atmosphere and getting in the way of light from the stars. So I went back inside. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightime Mark Haddon crumbs 22 31 00h "Ok OK. Calm. Penny Husbands-Bosworth so asbestos leukaemia item is not on yet" Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 22 33 00h "Yessss yessss. RECORDING CURRENT PROGRAMME. Have done it. Aargh. All going mad. Cassette has started rewinding and now stopped and ejected. Why Shit. Shit. Realize in excitement have sat on remote control." Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 22 35 00h "Frantic now. Have rung ......... Nobody know how to programme their videos. Only person I know who knows how to do it is Daniel." Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 22 45 00h IT's well after 2245h. the dog's leash slides hissing to the end of the Day-Glo line and stops the dog a couple of paces from the inside of teh gate where Lenz is standing inclined in the slight forward way of somebody who's talking baby-talk to a dog. Infinite Jest d translated 22 45 00h Alec pricked up his ears. "When was that " "Oh yesterday evening." "What time " "About a quarter to eleven. I was playing bridge." Dead in the water Carola Dunn stjerome1st 22 45 00h "Oh God Daniel fell about laughing when I said I could not programme video. Said he would do it for me. Still at least I have done best for Mum. It is exciting and historic when one's friends are on TV" Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 22 50 00h So think yourself lucky while you're awake and remember a happy crew. Think of Hamburg on the Magic Night. 22.50 and they went out neatly just as they should - you couldn't fault Parks he was always on his route. 'Burton Coggles Carlton Scroop Sloothby...' But he never tired of reeling off place names as they drove for the coast. 'Mavis Enderby - it's great that you guys really would call anywhere Mavis Enderby. Sounds like a librarian...' Skipper let him run for a while and then closed him down. 'You get two more and then you shut up.' It was all part of how Alfred started - checking RT and oxygen pressing the cheek piece on his reflector sight the comfort of it - feeling the wool of Joyce's hat comfy on his head and thinking of her just the once before he hides her all away - and hearing random offerings from the map. Day A. L. Kennedy Raylr 22 50 00h 10.50 P. M. This diary-keeping of mine is I fancy the outcome of that scientific habit of mind about which I wrote this morning. I like to register impressions while they are fresh. Once a day at least I endeavor to define my own mental position. It is a useful piece of self-analysis and has I fancy a steadying effect upon the character. Frankly I must confess that my own needs what stiffening I can give it. I fear that after all much of my neurotic temperament survives and that I am far from that cool calm precision which characterizes Murdoch or Pratt- Haldane. Otherwise why should the tomfoolery which I have witnessed this evening have set my nerves thrilling so that even now I am all unstrung My only comfort is that neither Wilson nor Miss Penclosa nor even Agatha could have possibly known my weakness. The Parasite Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Cindeesan 22 57 00h He says "They've killed Jan. Clear out." "The suitcase " I ask. "Take it away again. We want nothing to do with it now. Catch the eleven o'clock express." "But it doesn't stop here...." "It will. Go to track six. Opposite the freight station. You have three minutes". "But.." "Move or I'll have to arrest you." If on a winter's night a traveller Italo Calvino GolanD 22 57 00h He says "They've killed Jan. Clear out." "The suitcase " I ask. "Take it away again. We want nothing to do with it now. Catch the eleven o'clock express." "But it doesn't stop here...." "It will. Go to track six. Opposite the freight station. You have three minutes." "But..." "Move or I'll have to arrest you." If on a winter's night a traveller Italo Calvino GolanD 22 59 00h They parked the car outside Lowther's at precisely one minute to eleven. People were leaving not all of them happy at having their evening curtailed. But the grumbling was muted and even then it only started once they were safely on the street. The Complaints Ian Rankin DennisPreston 22.00 00h Of course they had good reason to be fussy on such a night. And then it was long after ten o'clock and yet there was no sign of Gabriel and his wife. Besides they were dreadfully afraid that Freddy Malins might turn up screwed. The Dead James Joyce VaariC 22.30 00h The time was ten-thirty but it could have been three in the morning because along its borders West Berlin goes to bed with the dark Smiley's People John Le Carre k1 22.45 00 So the Lackadaisical Broadcasting Co. bids you farewell with the message that if you aren't grateful to be living in a world where so many things to be grateful for are yours as a matter of course. Why it is now five seconds until fifteen minutes before eleven o'clock and you are just an old Trojan Horse. Good Intentions Ogden Nash thefatcontroller 23 00 00h The train arrived in New York at eleven that night. The Recognitions III p. 444 Penguin pb edn William Gaddis Bronte 23 00 00h They didn't even sit down to eat until 2300h. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace translated 23 00 00h The clock struck eleven. I looked at Adele whose head leant against my shoulder her eyes were waxing heavy so I took her up in my arms and carried her off to bed. It was near one before the gentlemen and ladies sought their chambers. Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte JLM 23 00 00h It was quite late already eleven o'clock when the guests having once again ended up together in the conservatory almost as one began to leave. My translation of a translation Buddenbrooks Thomas Mann AJ Jansson 23 00 00h At eleven o'clock that night having secured a bed at one of the hotels and telegraphed his address to his father immediately on his arrival he walked out into the streets of Sandbourne. It was too late to call on or inquire for any one and he reluctantly postponed his purpose till the morning. But he could not retire to rest just yet. This fashionable watering-place with its eastern and its western stations its piers its groves of pines its promenades and its covered gardens was to Angel Clare like a fairy place suddenly created by the stroke of a wand and allowed to get a little dusty. An outlying eastern tract of the enormous Egdon Waste was close at hand yet on the very verge of that tawny piece of antiquity such a glittering novelty as this pleasure city had chosen to spring up. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy frustrated artist 23 00 00h When they reached the top of the Astronomy Tower at eleven o'clock they found a perfect night for stargazing cloudless and still. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix JK Rowling Habibti 23 00 00h 'He will be here at eleven exactly sir.' At the bar naked couples had begun dancing Smiley's People John le Carre k1 23 00 00h At eleven o'clock I rang the bell for Betteredge and told Mr. Blake that he might at last prepare himself for bed. The Moonstone Wilkie Collins JLM 23 00 00h Then it grew dark she would have had them to bed but they begged sadly to be allowed to stay up and just about eleven o’clock the door-latch was raised quietly and in stepped the master. Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë @outofprinttees 23 05 00h It was five minutes past eleven when I made my last entry. I remember winding up my watch and noting the time. So I have wasted some five hours of the little span still left to us. Who would have believed it possible But I feel very much fresher and ready for my fate or try to persuade myself that I am. And yet the fitter a man is and the higher his tide of life the more must he shrink from death. How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs until his consciousness has drifted out of its untenable earthly harbor into the great sea beyond The Poison Belt Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Cindeesan 23 07 00h At 11.07 pm Samuel "Gunner" Wilson was moving at 645 miles per hour over the Mojave Desert. Up ahead in the moonlinght he saw the twin lead jets their afterburners glowing angrily in the night sky. The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton DennisPreston 23 10 00h Another Christmas day is nearly over. It's ten past eleven. Richard declined with thanks my offer to make up a bed for him here in my study and has driven off back to Cambridge so I am able to make some notes on the day before going to bed myself. Deaf Sentence David Lodge Traverso 1685 23 11 00h Life changes fast Life changes in an instant You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. The Question of self-pity. Those were the first words I wrote after it happened. The computer dating on the Microsoft Word file "Notes on change.doc" reads "May 20 2004 11 11 p.m. " but that would have been a case of my opening the file and reflexively pressing save when I closed it. I had made no changes to that file since I wrote the words in January 2004 a day or two after the fact. For a long time I wrote nothing else. Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion KDMiller 23 15 00h On arriving home at a quarter-past eleven we found a hansom cab which had been waiting for me for two hours with a letter. Sarah said she did not know what to do as we had not left the address where we had gone. Dairy of a Nobody George and Weedon Grossmith JLM 23 15 00h "Humph. Mum just rang "Sorry darling. It isn't Newsnigtht it's Breakfast News tomorrow. Could you set it for seven o'clock tomorrow morning BBC1 " Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 23 16 00h But I couldn't get out of the house straight away because he would see me so I would have to wait until he was asleep. The time was 11.16 pm. I tried doubling 2s again but I couldn't get past 2 15 which was 32 768. So I groaned to make the time pass quicker and not think. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 23 20 00h From Balboa Island he drove south to Laguna Beach. At eleven-twenty he parked his van across the street from the Hudston house. It was in the hills a single-story home slung on a steep slope to take advantage of ocean views. He saw lights in a couple of windows. He climbed between the seats and sat down in the back of the van out of sight to wait until all of the Hudstons had gone to bed. Soon after leaving the Yarbeck house he had changed out of his blue suit into gray slacks a white shirt a maroon sweater and a dark-blue nylon jacket. Now in the darkness he had nothing to do except take his weapons out of a cardboard box where they were hidden beneath two loaves of bread a four-roll package of toilet tissue and other items that gave the impression he had just been to the market. Watchers Dean Koontz Cindeesan 23 25 00h Holt was astonished - "dumbfounded" is the word that he used in telling it - yet seems to have retained a certain intelligent curiosity. To test the intensity of the light whose nature and cause he could not determine he took out his watch to see if he could make out the figures on the dial. They were plainly visible and the hands indicated the hour of eleven o'clock and twenty-five minutes. At that moment the mysterious illumination suddenly flared to an intense an almost blinding splendor flushing the entire sky extinguishing the stars and throwing the monstrous shadow of himself athwart the landscape. In that unearthly illumination he saw near him but apparently in the air at a considerable elevation the figure of his wife clad in her night-clothing and holding to her breast the figure of his child. Her eyes were fixed upon his with an expression which he afterward professed himself unable to name or describe further than that it was "not of this life." A Wireless Message short story Ambrose Bierce Cindeesan 23 30 00h It's always opening time in the Sailors Arms Under Milk Wood Dylan Thomas Aireman 23 30 00h He would catch the night bus for Casablanca the one that left the beach at half past eleven. 'The Dismissal' in Midnight Mass Other Stories Paul Bowles Bronte 23 30 00h He loaded the player and turned on the viewer his knees popping again as he squatted to set the cue to 2330. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace translated 23 30 00h "Daniel just called. "Er sorry Bridge. I'm not quite sure what went wrong. It's recorded Barry Norman." Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding thefatcontroller 23 32 00h And then it started to rain and I got wet and I started shivering because I was cold. And then it was 11.32 pm and I heard voices of people walking along the street. And a voice said 'I don't care whether you thought it was funny or not ' and it was a lady's voice. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 23 32 00h And then it was 11.32pm and I heard voices of people walking along the street. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nightime Mark Haddon crumbs 23 32 00h "This is the evening. This is the night. It is New Year´s Eve. In about twenty-eight minutes it will be midnight. I still have twenty-eight minutes left. I have to recollect my thoughts. At twelve o´clock I should be done thinking." He looked at his father. "Help those that are depressed and consider themselves lost in this world " he thought. "Old fart." The Evenings Gerard Reve Machiel 23 35 00h Eleven thirty-four. We stand on the sidewalk in front of Jean's apartment on the Upper East Side. Her doorman eyes us warily and fills me with a nameless dread his gaze piercing me from the lobby. A curtain of stars miles of them are scattered glowing across the sky and their multitude humbles me which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am which is of course an impossibility there ... is ... no ... key. American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 23 36 00h Then Green knocks at the front door at 2336 - Gately has to Log the exact time and then it's his call whether to unlock the door. Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace translated 23 39 00h There's a whisper down the line at 11.39 When the Night Mail's ready to depart Saying "Skimble where is Skimble has he gone to hunt the thimble We must find him or the train can't start." Practical Cats T S Eliot Irene 23 40 00h Later. Oh it did me good to see the way that these brave men worked. How can women help loving men when they are so earnest and so true and so brave And too it made me think of the wonderful power of money What can it not do when basely used. I felt so thankful that Lord Godalming is rich and both he and Mr. Morris who also has plenty of money are willing to spend it so freely. For if they did not our little expedition could not start either so promptly or so well equipped as it will within another hour. It is not three hours since it was arranged what part each of us was to do. And now Lord Godalming and Jonathan have a lovely steam launch with steam up ready to start at a moment's notice. Dr. Seward and Mr. Morris have half a dozen good horses well appointed. We all have the maps and appliances of various kinds that can be had. Professor Van Helsing and I are to leave by the 11 40 train tonight for Veresti where we are to get a carriage to drive to the Borgo Pass. We are bringing a good deal of ready money as we are to buy a carriage and horses. We shall drive ourselves for we have no one whom we can trust in the matter. The Professor knows something of a great many languages so we shall get on all right. We have all got arms even for me a large bore revolver. Jonathan would not be happy unless I was armed like the rest. ... Dracula Bram Stoker Cindeesan 23 41 00h 11 40pm Bartlett was twenty feet under a cat's cradle of girders that kept the wreckage from crushing him. When the avalanche had hit almost three hours ago he had been standing in the kitchen doorway sipping an ice-cold beer staring out at the city. He was bathed dressed and feeling wonderful waiting for Orlanda to return. Then he was falling the whole world wrong unearthly the floor coming up the stars below the city above. There had been a blinding monstrous soundless explosion and all air had rushed out of him and he had fallen into the upward pit forever. Coming back to consciousness was a long process for him. It was dark within his tomb and he hurt everywhere. He could not grasp what had happened or where he was. When he truly awoke he stared around trying to see where he was his hands touching things he could not understand. The closed darkness nauseated him and he reeled in panic to his feet smashing his head against a jutting chunk of concrete that was once part of the outside wall and fell back stunned his fall protected by the debris of an easy chair. In a little while his mind cleared but his head ached arms ached body ached. The phosphorescent figures on his watch attracted his attention. He peered at them. The time was 11 41. I remember...what do I remember Noble House James Clavell pjaj 23 45 00h The church clocks chimed three quarters past eleven as two figures emerged on London Bridge. One which advanced with a swift and rapid step was that of a woman who looked eagerly about her as though in quest of some expected object the other figure was that of a man who slunk along in the deepest shadow he could find and at some distance accommodated his pace to hers stopping when she stopped and as she moved again creeping stealthily on but never allowing himself in the ardour of his pursuit to gain upon her footsteps. Chapter XLVI- Noah follows Nancy to her meeting with Rose Maylie Oliver Twist Charles Dickens davidabsalom 23 45 00h We struck the tow-path at length and that made us happy because prior to this we had not been sure whether we were walking towards the river or away from it and when you are tired and want to go to bed uncertainties like that worry you. We passed Shiplake as the clock was striking the quarter to twelve and then George said thoughtfully 'You don't happen to remember which of the islands it was do you ' Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome Raylr 23 50 00h At 11 50 P.M. I got up extremely quietly took my things from under the bed and opened the door one millimeter at a time so it wouldn't make any noise. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer kwillz 23 53 00h It was 7 minutes to midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears' house. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Mark Haddon AggieH 23 55 00h "I am going to lock you in. It is-" he consulted his watch "five minutes to midnight. Miss Granger three turns should do it. Good luck." Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J. K. Rowling mistysolitude 23 55 00h Little by little he became so interested in putting me right that he forgot to fidget in the bed. His mind was far away from the question of the opium at the all-important time when his eyes first told me that the opium was beginning to lay its hold on his brain. I looked at my watch. It wanted five minutes to twelve when the premonitory symptoms of the working of the laudanum first showed themselves to me. At this time no unpractised eyes would have detected any change in him. But as the minutes of the new morning wore away the swiftly-subtle progress of the influence began to show itself more plainly. The sublime intoxication of opium gleamed in his eyes the dew of a stealthy perspiration began to glisten on his face. The Moonstone Wilkie Collins frustrated artist 23 57 00h Wells looked out at the street. What time is it he said. Chigurh raised his wrist and looked at his watch. Eleven fifty-seven he said. Wells nodded. By the old woman's calendar I've got three more minutes. No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy Irv 23 59 00h Chigurgh rose and picked up the empty casing off the rug and blew into it and put it in his pocket and looked at his watch. The new day was still a minute away. No Country for Old Men Cormac McCarthy Irv 24 00 00h I exist I am conceived to the chimes of midnight on the clock on the mantelpiece in the room across the hall. The clock once belonged to my great-grandmother a woman called Alice and its tired chime counts me into the world. BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM Kate Atkinson suzig 24 00 00h Big Ben concluded the run-up struck and went on striking. ... But odder still - Big Ben had once again struck midnight. The time outside still corresponded to that registered by the stopped gilt clock inside. Inside and outside matched exactly but both were badly wrong. H'm. Nights At The Circus Angela Carter scribler 24 00 00h The clock striketh twelve O it strikes it strikes Now body turn to air Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell. O soul be changed into little water drops And fall into the ocean ne'er to be found. My God my God look not so fierce on me Dr Faustus Christopher Marlowe Mt_Gilley 24 00 00h "That a man who could hardly see anything more than two feet away from him could be employed as a security guard suggested to me that our job was not to secure anything but to report for work every night fill the bulky ledger with cryptic remarks like 'Patrolled perimeter 12.00 pm No Incident' and go to the office every fortnight for our wages and listen to the talkative Ms Elgassier." A Squatter's Tale Ike Oguine AggieH 24 00 00h At midnight his wife and daughter might still be bustling about preparing holiday delicacies in the kitchen straightening up the house or perhaps getting their kimonos ready or arranging flowers. Oki would sit in the living room and listen to the radio. As the bells rang he would look back at the departing year. He always found it a moving experience. Beauty and Sadness Yasunari Kawabata translated by Howard Hibbett 24 00 00h 'The first night as soon as the corporal had conducted my uncle Toby up stairs which was about 10 - Mrs. Wadman threw herself into her arm chair and crossing her left knee with her right which formed a resting-place for her elbow she reclin'd her cheek upon the palm of her hand and leaning forwards ruminated until midnight upon both sides of the question.' The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman Laurence Sterne AggieH 24 00 00h BERNARDO 'Tis now struck twelve get thee to bed Francisco. Hamlet Shakspeare translated 24 00 00h "To begin my life with the beginning of my life I record that I was born as I have been informed and believe at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike and I began to cry simultaneously. - David Copperfield is born. David Copperfield Charles Dickens Heather Lyons 24 00 00h Midnight is approaching and while the peak of activity has passed the basal metabolism that maintains life continues undiminished producing the basso continuo of the city's moan a monotonous sound that neither rises or falls but is pregnant with foreboding. After Dark Murakami ilikethecutofyourjib 24 00 00h After midnight we're gonna let it all hang down. After midnight we're gonna chug-a-lug and shout. We're gonna stimulate some action We're gonna get some satisfaction. We're gonna find out what it is all about. After midnight we're gonna let it all hang down. 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I can upload via USB cable my ringtones and other sound files MP3 AAC MIDI WAV . However I am unable to set any of these files in any format as a ringtone or message alert.I get the message quot cannot be set as ringing tone quot .Any ideas as to why or how i can use other ringtones other than the ones that came with the phone View Replies View Related BB Bold 9700 Bug In Alerts - Different Tone Then Customized Alert Or Tone Plays Has anyone else found that despite setting the alerts that sometimes a different tone comes out of the 9700 I thought I was doing something wrong but I don #039 t think so. My phone randomly plays me an assortment quot crickets quot quot sanguines quot and quot relaxed soars quot me for no apparent reason even though I have a selected tone for my quot normal quot and have not selected cusomized ringtones or alerts for those incoming messages. 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I #039 ve double checked in media mode that these are renamed to exactly what they should be called and I can still see them with their correct file names down the list some. But for some reason this list keeps showing up and GROWING It seems like every time I go to my profiles to change a ring tone or add a custom tone for a contact this list gets bigger. All of my ring tones are stored on my SD. View Replies View Related BB Bold 9700 Weird Ring Tone / Alert Situation - Changes As Soon As Take Out From Holster From Set To Default Tone So the #039 Normal #039 profile of my 9700 Phone is set up to play ALWAYS simply because it is on my desk in the office it is not in the holster and I want to hear when it rings. I also have a ring tone that I downloaded not the default .I noticed that when the phone is in the holster and it rings as soon as I take it out from the holster the ring tonne changes from the one I set up to the default AT amp T ring tone. 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The Genius Bar at my local store has had no suggestions and taken a shoulder shrug approach to the problem. Information Windows XP Pro View Replies View Related IPhone No Sound Of Ringing My sound went all of a sudden to very low. It doesn #039 t ring any more or make any sounds. When I hook the headphones up it is perfectly ok. I need to hear at least the phone ring. Any suggestions. Information Compaq Windows Vista View Replies View Related IPhone Speaker - No Longer Loud / How To Fix I think sprite came into the speaker of my iphone 3G v2.2 and since then its not loud anymore ... is there any way i can try and get it fixed from rogers i still have my warranty .. View Replies View Related IPhone Loud Electrical Screech During Calls So I have a friend who I talk to on the phone quite often. She has an AT amp T 3G phone not an iPhone some other phone. 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I set it up with an alarm Basso quot message with sound quot .It works if I have the phone in my pocket I feel it vibrate but the alarm goes off once and then simply displays a message on the main screen. Every single cell phone I have ever owned has dogged me until I surrendered to look at the missed call voice mail or low battery. The iPhone is amazingly stoopidly shy Am I missing something or is this a common complaint I #039 m just not aware of View Replies View Related IPhone Not Ringing - With Full Bars My iphone 4 is my first iphone so I #039 m new to this. My iphone will be sitting right next to me with full bars and it won #039 t ring when someone calls. I will see that I missed a call but my phone never rang. Also I #039 ve noticed that texts will be delayed sometimes. Basically my phone is exhibiting symptoms of low reception when it is untouched on my desk with full bars. 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Information iPhone 2G / 16GB iPhone OS 3.1.2 View Replies View Related IPhone Apple Bluetooth Headset And 3Gs Not Loud Enough I purchased the Apple Bluetooth headset when I got my first Iphone two years ago. The volume was excellent and that made the headset excellent in a noisy environment such as ones car. When I upgraded to the 3Gs and paired the headset I found the volume was not adequate even in a quiet room. I repaired with the old Iphone and it #039 s fine. So I #039 ve waiting for Apple to find and fix this bug My old Iphone wife #039 s 3G and my 3Gs all have the newest firmware version 3.0 and the volume is fine with the old iphone. I have not tested on my wife #039 s phone. Information Home Built Windows XP Pro View Replies View Related IPhone Ringing Volume Switching To Minimum I have updated my iPhone to 2.0 I love it however sence then my ringing volume keeps switching to the minimum. 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Only problem was that the phone would not stop ringing even with the other person on the line talking to me Ended the call and phone was still ringing so I was forced to shut it down and restart to end it. Anyone else run into this Information iPhone 4 iOS 4 View Replies View Related IPhone 2.0 Software Incoming Calls Have Been Not Ringing Since I have updated my iPhone to the 2.0 software incoming calls have been not ringing and or causing my phone to freeze. I was wondering if anyone else was having the same problems. Also SMS text and calendar and notes all have been opening very slowly. I have restored my phone and this does not seem to help. I was wondering if it is my phone or if more people are having these problems. Yes kind of but I have the original iPhone so it has nothing to do with 3G it will just randomly not receive a call or freeze when it does causing it to vibrate out of control. Information Windows XP Pro View Replies View Related IPhone Extremely Loud Environment Damage The Speaker/mic I #039 m a drummer and I like having my phone near me at all times but before I bring my iPhone to the tiny room with big loud drums and cymbals I wanna know if it #039 s going to mess up my phone. View Replies View Related IPhone Loud Ticking Sound When Make Or Recieve Calls its b een crashing and just plain freezing up on me this new issue is is a loud ticking sound when i make or recieve calls.it sounds like interference but im never near something that could give off interference when im on the phone also ill be calling out to someone and there will be no kind of tone or ringing but it will still show im connected. this is getting really frustrated. i guess ill have to get a new phone. View Replies View Related IPhone Phone Missing Calls - But Get No Ringing Sound More and more frequently myself and my friend are getting missed calls friends say they rang and it just rang out no sound this end last night i confirmed my phone was sitting right in front of me on the table another friend rang on a land line his number is in my phone my phone did not ring vibrate or even light up. He rang again 3 minutes later and the phone worked perfectly. I have read all the forums no it is not a carrier problem doesnt matter if its telstra or optus same issue no it is not a case of the phone being on silent no it is not a corrupted ring tone this appears to be very much an Apple Iphone Problem can anyone advise do they have a fix for this very annoying problem. Iphone 3 g latest software and no other issues. By the way i use telstra my friend uses optus and we both have the same issues with lots of missed calls. Information LG Other OS View Replies View Related IPhone When Receiving Call During Ringing / Why Clock Disappears It is really strange why the clock disappears when you receive a call quot during ringing quot for me it is really matter to know the time just before I answer you can notice that when your phone is ringing you can #039 t see the time and you are stuck.I #039 m sure some of you are sharing the same concern.how can we send this to the developers to solve this issue.just to let you feel my concern.Imagine yourself sleeping and suddenly someone called you quot your Boss quot you just woke up and you have no idea what is the time its bad to answer and ask the caller what is the time and its annouing to wait till the phone stop ringing to check the time then you call back.Please let me know if there is a way to solve this or at least let #039 s ask the developers to solve it Information iphone iOS 4 View Replies View Related IPhone 4G / Stop A Call From Ringing / Send The Caller To Voicemail On my old Treo to stop a call from ringing not just silence the ringer and send the caller to voicemail I just pressed the end button. Does anyone know how to do this on an iPhone 3G Information MacBook Pro Mac OS X 10.5.4 iPhone 3G View Replies View Related IPhone Can #039 t Hear Phone Ringing Or Receiving Text I cannot hear my phone when it rings or when i recieve a text it does vibrate I cannot hear any of my music or movies but can hear them when i plug in headphones. Information dell Windows XP View Replies View Related IPhone Louder Tones For Ringing / Text And E-mail Alerts How can I increase the sound settings to make the ring tones text amp e-mail alerts louder I have used the rocker switch on the side to turn up the volume to the max but I still miss calls and alerts. No I am not deaf either I am sure other users must face the same dilemma. Information IPhone Other OS softwear 1.1.4. View Replies View Related IPhone IP4 Bluetooth In Car / Nissan Sentra / No Audible Ringing I have a Nissan Sentra with built in bluetooth and I am having problems since getting the new iphone. I synced mine with no problems but when someone calls the phone vibrates and then only after a couple of quot rings quot the car display says bluetooth but there is still no audible ringing at all. The phone was not in silent mode. With my 3G as soon as a call came in it would silence my radio and the car would ring to let me know of an incoming call. Anyone having similiar issues with their car bluetooth View Replies View Related BB Bold 9650 Wrong Alert Tone For SMS Played - Song Tone For Email Alert Came This is only the second time this has happened since I got the phone a few weeks back.I have all of my messages set to different specific ringtones. My SMS to one my MMS to one my email to one etc. So tonight I rcvd an email and instead of playing the tone it always plays that it is set for one of the generic preloaded notifier tones ... it played my SMS tone which is an actual song tone to alert me to my email. And NO I didnt recieve a new SMS at the same time. That folder is empty and the only red star alert was on my email envelope. Like I said this is very very few and far between but why would this happen I went over every one of my sound/alert settings and they are all the way they should be set for my liking. View Replies View Related Motorola Classic Q Changing Text Message Alert Tone And Email Alert Tone I can #039 t figure out how to change the text message and email alert tones to one of my own. It will only let me pick the defaults not my own. I have even put my tones into the same folder as the defaults and they still will not show up on the list for me to pick them. I read about ppl using mp3 #039 s for it but it won #039 t work for me. View Replies View Related BB Tour 9630 Ring Tone On Phone Is Not Ring Tone The ring tone on my phone is not the ring tone I have set. Also none of my distinctive ring tones for contacts work. I have tried to set ringtones under the set ring tones/alerts tab and also in media under ring tones. I must have messed up some setting but am not sure what. I tried a battery pull without success. Any other thoughts View Replies View Related IPhone Possible To Take The MP3 #039 s Or MIDI #039 s And Convert Them To Serve As A LOUD Ringtone Two things 1. I #039 m a business professional. 2. I own a BMW 328i Convertible. The stock ringtones in the 3G are not very expansive and don #039 t offer much choice.None of the ringtones in the 3G are LOUD enough to be heard at 75 mph with the roof down.I don #039 t see any #039 basic #039 ringtones for sale in the iTMS is it possible somehow for me to take the MP3 #039 s or MIDI #039 s from my old Moto Verizon days and convert them to something that the iPhone can serve as a LOUD ringtone View Replies View Related IPhone Periodically Receiving quot Missed Call quot With Phone Not Ringing At All OK just the other day my iphone 3G when I receive a phone call sometimes it does not ring. Someone would call me and the phone would not ring vibrate and the display would just stay black. I would click the home button and the quot Slide to unlock quot screen would display and then it would pop up quot Missed Call quot I dont know what to do. I went to apple and they looked at my phone and he called it and YES it did not ring he put his sim card in my phone he called it again it rang display showed number calling etc. so that is all he did and he said It may be the sim card go to ATT and have them look at it. So I went to the att store in the mall and explaind what was happening and the girl called the phone But this time it rang she said its fine. Haha I told her it does it periodicly. She said quot I can give you a new sim card but its fine I told her its not fine but lets try that and well see I just called and it didn #039 t ring nor did the display acknowledge i have a call coming in I clicked the home button and bing MISSED CALL Anyone else experiencing this Suggestions go back to apple this would make it my 4th iPhone if they replace this hahah its prob one of those ****** refurbs. View Replies View Related IPhone No Tone For SMS Whenever i get an sms message i get a chime and vibrate at the same time... well after about 30 or so messages back and forth or what not i started to realize that all it was doing was just vibrating and no chime..After a reboot it would than start to work but after a few more hours of whatnot it realized that it stopped again. View Replies View Related Copyright © 2005-08 BigResource All rights reserved Hundreds of free exercises to learn English online grammar verbs songs vocabulary listening reading and videos. 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Texas journalist Kay Bell helps make your tax tasks less well taxing. Home Table of Contents About Me Subscribe Tax Tips State Tax Information Year-round Tax Money Moves Tax Glossary Taxes and Politics Archives Keep Uncle Sam cranky It's no wonder Uncle Sam is not very happy here. His vault is empty. Don't Mess With Taxes aims to keep him cranky by providing tax and personal finance tips and advice that will put more money in your bank account not the government treasury. July 2011 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Tax Calendar Welcome to Tax Season 2011. Most of us filed by April 18 but around 10 million taxpayers got an extension to file their 1040s. The countdown is now underway for that Oct. 17 deadline. How much tax time remains Get the Countdown Creator Pro widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox Not seeing a widget More info The tax clock is always ticking. The calendar below updated each month will help you keep track of tax dates and highlights tax moves to make between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 so you can save tax money all year-round. July 1 We're halfway through the year. That makes July the perfect month to make adjusting your payroll withholding to more accurately reflect any changes to your life that have occurred so far this year. Just give your employer a new W-4 . July 4 Celebrate your independence from tax hassles. Hire a destructive as 2011's tornadoes . Regardless of what kind of natural disaster you might encounter if you suffer storm losses the IRS might be able to help you recover major disaster area . July 11 Does your job include tips If so and you received $20 in tips in June use day camp . The costs of these camps are eligible for the child and dependent care credit. July 20 Are your kids older Then summer's a great time to learn a little financial responsibility by getting a summer jobs. Just make sure the new young workforce members understand their open a Roth IRA with some of those summer earnings. July 31 And don't forget about your own contribute to your workplace and IRA accounts . Small Business Tax Calendar July Important Tax Carnival submission page . Catch up on previous Tax Carnivals in our archives . My favorite tax financial sites Internal Revenue Service Taxpayer Advocacy Panel TaxProf Blog TaxVox Tax The Tax Foundation Check out my complete blogroll at Tax Sites I Like I gotta tell ya ... AKA Disclaimer The content on Don't Mess With Taxes is my personal opinion based on my study and understanding of tax laws policies and regulations. It’s provided for your private noncommercial educational and informational purposes only. It’s not a recommendation or endorsement of any company or product. 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