[HN Gopher] Chimes at Midnight (2024)
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       Chimes at Midnight (2024)
        
       Author : chautumn
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2025-02-09 09:45 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
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       | thesuperhacker wrote:
       | What is happening at midnight?
        
         | robinhouston wrote:
         | The title is referencing a '60s movie, I think. Nothing
         | particular is happening at midnight, as far as I know.
        
           | jfengel wrote:
           | The movie is based on a Shakespeare play, Henry IV part 1.
           | 
           | All that happens at midnight is that the clock rings, which
           | is pretty late if you're in the 16th century. The scene is
           | two old men reminiscing about their wild youth:
           | 
           | "We have heard the chimes at midnight"
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           | "That we have, that we have, that we have"
        
           | robterrell wrote:
           | "Chimes at Midnight" is a clever Orson Welles film that
           | combines all of the Falstaff scenes from the various
           | Shakespeare plays that he appears in.
        
         | defrost wrote:
         | It'll be Sunday lunch time in New York City @ midnight here.
        
       | robinhouston wrote:
       | I am amused by the way the author gives such detailed directions
       | for "an enterprising trespasser" to pay an unauthorised visit to
       | the Clock.
       | 
       | It's also a clever device to make the account of the author's
       | visit more vivid, because I as the reader imagine making the
       | journey myself.
       | 
       | (But I do think it would be a fun adventure to try to follow the
       | directions.)
        
       | tbolt wrote:
       | Only half way through but damn what a good read.
        
       | CoffeeOnWrite wrote:
       | I actually didn't realize till reading this article that The Long
       | Now was so closely tied to Singularity theory.
       | 
       | The clock being deep in a cave reminds me of the clockworks in
       | Even Cowgirls Get The Blues. The clockworks are more of an
       | entropy amplifier than what we think of as a timekeeping device,
       | which I guess is the point of the metaphor, in a way. The
       | clockworks embody eastern philosophy and humility and Bezos'
       | clock embodies manifest destiny and arrogance?
        
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