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The Ticking of a German Clock
The ticking of a clock always made me feel like time was running out, as if I could sense the end of my life closing in on me. When I tried to talk mom into keeping the old thing, I told her I didn't feel right taking it when it was all she had left of dad's collection. She insisted that it had been passed down from my great-grandfather, and I should pass it on to my son. "I put down Schrodinger's breakfast and I took that clock out to the trash on the curb," he says.