I printed sheets on both sides, just as in a standard book, and added a title page on which I drew a rudimentary pendulum dripping small black blotches which I hoped would look like blood.
A pendulum makes one beat per second, a quartz crystal and a $5 digital watch beats 32,768 times per second, atomic clocks wobble billions of times per second.
Sometimes he had stayed out all night and Scarlett, lying awake behind her locked door, hearing the clock count off the early morning hours, wondered where he was.