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Lewis Carroll  - Sylvie and Bruno

Silently the Professor drew from his pocket a square gold watch, with six or eight hands and held it out for my inspection.

‘This’ he began ‘is an Outlandish watch – ‘

‘So I should have thought’

‘ – which has the peculiar property that, instead of its going with the time, the time goes with it.  I trust you understand me now?’

‘Hardly’ I said

‘Permit me to explain.  So long as I let it alone, it takes its own course.  Time has no effect upon it’

‘I have known such watches’ I remarked

‘It goes, of course, at the usual rate.  Only the time has to go with it.  Hence if I move the hands, I change the time.  To move them forwards, in advance of the true time, is impossible, but I can move them as much as a month backwards – that is the limit.  And then you have the events all over again – with any alterations experience may suggest’