The Watchmaker of Filigree Street

by Natasha Pulley

sitting sideways made them look like society girls learning to ride,

Humour

D sharp was yellow. Other notes

This sound-seeing was something he had always kept to himself.

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have been walking forward through time, watching the same buildings age five years with every step,

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George had been middle-aged when time began,

Strange way of writing ..begins to be odd references to how time works!. Starts in 1883, then 1884, then on page 136 Mori’s diary was ordered only vaguely clustered e.g. 12th April 1871 is next to 14th June. 1884 as though they had both been written at the same time…Had Mori visited 14th June twice??? (Book 12) Then in part 21 Mori is in Tokyo in 1882 before the rest of the events in the earlier part of the;book.part 22 is back in London in 1884.

shone the colour of a human voice.

Strange description.

fear of big machinery was.

Mechanophobia

Starts in 1883 Then 1884, then 1871 then back to 1884,

‘Still, blowing up would be a change from paperwork.’

Humour

The familiar well-scheduled pressure on the back of his skull wanted him to go home,

Recurrent thought of there being something wrong with the nape of his neck…

Keita Mori had told him now that there was some ingenious lens built into the gateway that allowed a visitor to see into the past, Ito would have believed him.

Hint that time is out of joint

The nape of his neck prickled.

Also on p41

caught the sunlight sadly.

How does the sunlight seem sadly?

What will happen in ten years?’

‘No.’ His voice sounded wrong.

the back of his neck,

overhead of his thoughts,

What does this mean? Like a speech bubble?

Everything since then had been nothing but laps.

What does this mean ? Perhaps he means he has been going around in circles of sameness?

paternal kindnesses.

Curious phrase

Now that he looked, there were too many planets; on the outer edge were two extra, spinning around each other as well as the sun.

Does Mori know there are more planets out there than we’re known about at the time 1880s?

Mori leaned across to wave his arm at a patch of air by the door.

Waving at a patch of air? Suggestion that he uses either magic or a motion detector ahead of their invention

His teeth stung.

interferometer’s

a book. He stopped. Ancient and cracked, the cover was otherwise blank, but the spine had been broken and restitched to allow for the insertion of extra pages.

eighty-four; this year would be the sixteenth. The dates in the diary were only vaguely clustered.

Towards the back were entries for this year and for next year, and the year after. He frowned and recalculated the difference,

the middle, next to an entry about the twelfth of April in 1871, was today’s date, the fourteenth of June, 1884. The ink was old and faded, just like the entry from the earlier date. The first word of the entry was his own name.

None of it had happened but the broken dresser,

dozen languages fluttering under the chandeliers.

hummed it. He looked at the ceiling in order to have a blank space on which to see the colours,

It was the piece Mori played in the mornings. In the programme, it had said that the sonata was new for the occasion.

Seems Mori has information from the future

‘The second movement. Have you played it somewhere before?’ ‘No,’ said Griszt,

The sheet music was printed only this morning.’

muttered.

I answer the one that you were going to ask, and not the one that you did.’

‘Likely things are very clear,

Unlikely things are patchy,

everything that might happen,

sighed through his nose.

If a human being could sense those disturbances,

would know you were going to do something when you decided to do it, not when you did it.

How Mori sifts through his thoughts of possible futures

Japanese sounds like baby talk and he has a ridiculous moustache, and he’s talking to those men of twenty and twenty-five thinking they’re twelve. You’re missing it.’

the heart of the story is the universal human quest for acceptance,

It was making his fingernails feel stretched.

something the boy understood, from an older world. He wanted samurai, not modern manners.

he could hear ghosts of the thirty-six of thirty-seven possible worlds in which Grace had not won at the roulette, and not stepped backward into him.

Our plans to overthrow everyone in cufflinks are almost complete anyway.’

Friends were things that he liked to surround himself with for a while, like good curtains, before he moved on and forgot them and bought new curtains elsewhere.

He had a strange way of moving anyway, sometimes sudden and sometimes slow,

Like a video that has been edited

I’ve been working on an experiment to prove the existence of ether,’

mostly I use ether for not walking into events.