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“I had six honest serving men;They taught me all I knew;Their names were what and why and whenAnd where and how and who.”
I have all my life had a passionate love of watches. It seems that I would break them deliberately in order to get a new one and would usually carry more than one at a time as in fear that one of them would stop. I would derive unspeakable pleasure from watching the movement of the second hand and pressing the watch to my ear to listen to the ticking.
Having lately recognized this inordinate love of watches as an obsessive compulsion and being convinced by reason and experience that all