[LEAPSECS] 6:66

Daniel R. Tobias dan at tobias.name
Thu Jan 12 07:46:14 EST 2012


On 12 Jan 2012 at 12:15, Tony Finch wrote:


> You may know that it's common to photograph analoge clocks with their arms

> set to a position that makes them look cheerful, roughly 01:50 or 10:10.


In the illustration in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass,
and What Alice Found There", the side of the clock facing away from
the mirror, as seen once Alice goes through it, has a face with kind
of a smirk on it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aliceroom3.jpg

It looks to be about 2:45, or perhaps 10:15 in mirror reversal.


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