Meditações - destruir o relógio, para fazer nascer o tempo...

[...] Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. [...]

William Faulkner, in The Sound and the Fury, na fala do protagonista, que destrói e depois se recusa a reparar um relógio de pulso