diff --git a/docs/times/01_00.json b/docs/times/01_00.json index bd988a40..cdefd5c5 100644 --- a/docs/times/01_00.json +++ b/docs/times/01_00.json @@ -142,5 +142,23 @@ "title": "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul", "author": "Douglas Adams", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "01:00", + "quote_first": "Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler had wandered off and was doing a busy trade with those late-night revelers who were too drunk to prevent optimism triumphing over experience; anyone who bought a meal at ", + "quote_time_case": "one a.m.", + "quote_last": " after a night’s reveling was probably going to be riotously ill anyway, so they might as well have something to show for it.", + "title": "Moving Pictures", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "01:00", + "quote_first": "Being caught at ", + "quote_time_case": "one A.M.", + "quote_last": " in a bank’s deposit vault while wearing a black suit with lots of little pockets in it could be considered suspicious, so why do it?", + "title": "Going Postal", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/01_59.json b/docs/times/01_59.json index 10537bee..6b1ef0e9 100644 --- a/docs/times/01_59.json +++ b/docs/times/01_59.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish", "author": "Douglas Adams", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "01:59", + "quote_first": "Ponder must have nodded off, because he was awakened ", + "quote_time_case": "just before two A.M.", + "quote_last": " by a scream and realized he was face down in half of his supper.", + "title": "The Last Continent", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/02_00.json b/docs/times/02_00.json index 22e564eb..ef9cdcc5 100644 --- a/docs/times/02_00.json +++ b/docs/times/02_00.json @@ -223,5 +223,14 @@ "title": "The Brothers Karamazov", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "02:00", + "quote_first": "They couldn’t pin anything on Moist, but in the cold, wet light of ", + "quote_time_case": "two a.m.", + "quote_last": ", he could imagine bloody Commander Vimes worrying at this, picking away at it in that thick-headed way of his.", + "title": "Making Money", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/03_00.json b/docs/times/03_00.json index b2905ffb..593fcb88 100644 --- a/docs/times/03_00.json +++ b/docs/times/03_00.json @@ -439,5 +439,23 @@ "title": "Middlemarch", "author": "George Eliot", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "03:00", + "quote_first": "“Fred, the finest tradition of the Watch is having a quiet smoke somewhere out of the wind at ", + "quote_time_case": "three a.m.", + "quote_last": " Let’s not get carried away, eh?”", + "title": "Jingo", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "03:00", + "quote_first": "THERE ARE TIMES when you just have to miss a night’s sleep. But Ankh-Morpork never slept; the city never did more than doze, and would wake up around ", + "quote_time_case": "three A.M", + "quote_last": ". for a glass of water.", + "title": "Going Postal", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/03_01.json b/docs/times/03_01.json index 2a306127..9f8994ac 100644 --- a/docs/times/03_01.json +++ b/docs/times/03_01.json @@ -34,5 +34,14 @@ "title": "Forever Amber", "author": "Kathleen Windsor", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "03:01", + "quote_first": "It wasn’t exactly whiskey, and it wasn’t exactly gin, but it was exactly 90° proof, and a great comfort during those worrying moments that sometimes occurred ", + "quote_time_case": "around 3 A.M.", + "quote_last": " when you woke up and forgot who you were.", + "title": "Lords and Ladies", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/03_02.json b/docs/times/03_02.json index ef084b15..e59d297e 100644 --- a/docs/times/03_02.json +++ b/docs/times/03_02.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "The Children of Men", "author": "P.D. James", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "03:02", + "quote_first": "“I don’t know why you think your life has been so bad,” he said. “We had a lot of fun when we were younger. Hey, do you remember the time when we went over the edge of the world?”
“Often,” said Rincewind. “Usually ", + "quote_time_case": "around 3 A.M.", + "quote_last": "”", + "title": "Interesting Times", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/04_00.json b/docs/times/04_00.json index e46aa936..3e1b4b57 100644 --- a/docs/times/04_00.json +++ b/docs/times/04_00.json @@ -241,5 +241,23 @@ "title": "The Hasheesh Eater", "author": "Fitz Hugh Ludlow", "sfw": "no" + }, + { + "time": "04:00", + "quote_first": "Corporal Carrot awoke around ", + "quote_time_case": "four a.m.", + "quote_last": ", that secret hour known only to the night people, such as criminals, policemen and other misfits. He lay on his half of the narrow bed and stared at the wall.", + "title": "Men at Arms", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "04:00", + "quote_first": "Twenty-seven people were got out of bed in quick succession and they got another fifty-three out of bed, because if there is one thing a man wants to know when he’s woken up in a panic at ", + "quote_time_case": "4:00 A.M.", + "quote_last": ", it’s that he’s not alone.", + "title": "Good Omens", + "author": "Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/05_00.json b/docs/times/05_00.json index 97e1a31b..0f6e4045 100644 --- a/docs/times/05_00.json +++ b/docs/times/05_00.json @@ -196,5 +196,23 @@ "title": "Vanity Fair", "author": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "05:00", + "quote_first": "Any watcher trained in reading body language would have been prepared to bet that, after the click, someone was going to suggest that they might as well go somewhere and have a few drinks, and then someone else would fancy a meal, and then there was always room for a few more drinks, and then it would be ", + "quote_time_case": "5 a.m.", + "quote_last": " and the city guards would be respectfully knocking on the University gates and asking if the Archchancellor would care to step down to the cells to identify some alleged wizards who were singing an obscene song in six-part harmony, and perhaps he would also care to bring some money to pay for all the damage.", + "title": "Moving Pictures", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "05:00", + "quote_first": "The rain was a solid curtain when he finally staggered out into the gray light of dawn. The gutters overflowed. Along the rooftops, repulsive gargoyles threw up expertly over passers-by although, since it was now ", + "quote_time_case": "five a.m.", + "quote_last": ", the crowds had thinned out a bit.", + "title": "Moving Pictures", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/06_47.json b/docs/times/06_47.json index 09933f72..ca8b04be 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_47.json +++ b/docs/times/06_47.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "Shall We Tell the President?", "author": "Jeffrey Archer", "sfw": "no" + }, + { + "time": "06:47", + "quote_first": "The time was ", + "quote_time_case": "6:47", + "quote_last": ". Jeremy glanced at the alarm clocks to make sure they were right, then pulled his dressing gown around him and hurried downstairs.", + "title": "Thief of Time", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/06_59.json b/docs/times/06_59.json index c48e7d25..21161e00 100644 --- a/docs/times/06_59.json +++ b/docs/times/06_59.json @@ -25,5 +25,14 @@ "title": "The Girl Who Played with Fire", "author": "Stieg Larsson", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "06:59", + "quote_first": "There was a row of alarm clocks on the table by Jeremy’s bed. He did not need them, because he woke up when he wanted to. They were there for testing. He set them for seven, and woke up at ", + "quote_time_case": "6:59", + "quote_last": " to check that they went off on time.", + "title": "Thief of Time", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/07_00.json b/docs/times/07_00.json index 8b76d9f1..5870efd8 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_00.json +++ b/docs/times/07_00.json @@ -205,5 +205,14 @@ "title": "Crime and Punishment", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "07:00", + "quote_first": "He approved of the milkman, because he was regular and punctual and had the bottles at the doorstep every morning on the stroke of ", + "quote_time_case": "7 A.M", + "quote_last": "", + "title": "Thief of Time", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/07_15.json b/docs/times/07_15.json index ac2ef124..e351dc19 100644 --- a/docs/times/07_15.json +++ b/docs/times/07_15.json @@ -34,5 +34,14 @@ "title": "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", "author": "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "07:15", + "quote_first": "This strange loop has a curious effect on causality. We get up in the morning and leave the house at ", + "quote_time_case": "7.15", + "quote_last": " because we have to get to work by 9 o’clock. Scientifically, this is a very bizarre form of causality: the future is affecting the past.", + "title": "The Globe", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/08_00.json b/docs/times/08_00.json index aedf9607..9157c18f 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_00.json +++ b/docs/times/08_00.json @@ -358,5 +358,14 @@ "title": "Death in Venice", "author": "Thomas Mann", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "08:00", + "quote_first": "Crowley liked the city in the early morning. Its population consisted almost entirely of people who had proper jobs to do and real reasons for being there, as opposed to the unnecessary millions who trailed in after ", + "quote_time_case": "8 A.M.", + "quote_last": ", and the streets were more or less quiet.", + "title": "Good Omens", + "author": "Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/08_30.json b/docs/times/08_30.json index ebb39ca1..790fd02e 100644 --- a/docs/times/08_30.json +++ b/docs/times/08_30.json @@ -133,5 +133,14 @@ "title": "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance", "author": "Robert M. Pirsig", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "08:30", + "quote_first": "He woke up at ", + "quote_time_case": "half past eight", + "quote_last": ", read the accumulated papers, and voided a small scream. All right, all right, he thought. There is no actual hurry, as such. We can change it back any time we like. That’s what time travel means.", + "title": "Darwin's Watch", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/09_15.json b/docs/times/09_15.json index 90d62585..8087244e 100644 --- a/docs/times/09_15.json +++ b/docs/times/09_15.json @@ -61,5 +61,14 @@ "title": "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day", "author": "Winifred Watson", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "09:15", + "quote_first": "It was one of the new-fangled pocket watches, with hands. They pointed to a ", + "quote_time_case": "quarter past nine", + "quote_last": ". He shook it. A small hatch opened under the 12 and a very small demon poked its head out and said, “Knock it off, guv’nor, I’m pedalling as fast as I can.”", + "title": "Reaper Man", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/10_30.json b/docs/times/10_30.json index 8bd58928..9cfab2b7 100644 --- a/docs/times/10_30.json +++ b/docs/times/10_30.json @@ -61,5 +61,14 @@ "title": "The Sportswriter", "author": "Richard Ford", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "10:30", + "quote_first": "“About one hundred and sixty, since the Schism of ", + "quote_time_case": "ten-thirty A.M.", + "quote_last": ", February twenty-third. That was when the Re-United Free Chelonianists (Hubward Convocation) split from the Re-United Free Chelonianists (Rimward Convocation). It was rather serious.”", + "title": "Carpe Jugulum", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/11_01.json b/docs/times/11_01.json index 32cae111..1b2d422a 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_01.json +++ b/docs/times/11_01.json @@ -25,5 +25,14 @@ "title": "The Party and Other Stories", "author": "Anton Pavlovich Chekhov", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "11:01", + "quote_first": "Not many people were on the streets. It was too hot, even for an Ankh-Morpork summer. Heat radiated from every surface. The river slunk sullenly in the bottom of its bed, like a student ", + "quote_time_case": "around 11 A.M.", + "quote_last": "", + "title": "Men at Arms", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/11_15.json b/docs/times/11_15.json index e371173b..f79a1793 100644 --- a/docs/times/11_15.json +++ b/docs/times/11_15.json @@ -25,5 +25,14 @@ "title": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", "author": "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "11:15", + "quote_first": "The clock said ", + "quote_time_case": "quarter past eleven", + "quote_last": ".
Vimes walked over to the door and, despite precedent, knocked gently.
There was no sound from within, no murmur of distant voices.
He tried the handle. The door was unlocked.
Lord Vetinari had always said that punctuality was the politeness of princes.
Vimes went in.", + "title": "Feet of Clay", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/15_15.json b/docs/times/15_15.json index c8286156..38a78808 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_15.json +++ b/docs/times/15_15.json @@ -52,5 +52,23 @@ "title": "The Voices of Time", "author": "J.G. Ballard", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "15:15", + "quote_first": "Women weren’t allowed in the club at all except under Rule Thirty-four B, which grudgingly allowed for female members of the family or respectable married ladies over thirty to be entertained to tea in the Green Drawing Room between ", + "quote_time_case": "3:15", + "quote_last": " and 4:30 P.M., provided at least one member of staff was present at all times.", + "title": "Thief of Time", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "15:15", + "quote_first": "You couldn’t remember every little thing. Wednesday: 3 P.M., reign of terror; ", + "quote_time_case": "3:15 P.M.", + "quote_last": ", clean out scorpion pit…", + "title": "Feet of Clay", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/15_20.json b/docs/times/15_20.json index bc384350..67ab0b45 100644 --- a/docs/times/15_20.json +++ b/docs/times/15_20.json @@ -34,5 +34,14 @@ "title": "Occupied City", "author": "David Peace", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "15:20", + "quote_first": "“The trouble is, because the blasted thing can see everywhere, it’s practically impossible to get it to see anywhere. At least, anywhere worth seeing. And you’d be amazed at how many places there are in the universe. And times, too.”
“", + "quote_time_case": "Twenty past one", + "quote_last": ", for example,” said the Patrician.", + "title": "The Last Hero", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/19_05.json b/docs/times/19_05.json index 1263a882..9bc0eb79 100644 --- a/docs/times/19_05.json +++ b/docs/times/19_05.json @@ -25,5 +25,14 @@ "title": "The Constantine Codex", "author": "Paul L. Maier", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "19:05", + "quote_first": "The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork sat back on his austere chair with the sudden bright smile of a very busy person at the end of a crowded day who’s suddenly found in his schedule a reminder saying: 7:00-", + "quote_time_case": "7:05", + "quote_last": ", Be Cheerful and Relaxed and a People Person.", + "title": "Men at Arms", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/20_32.json b/docs/times/20_32.json index facfebdb..ac2f792b 100644 --- a/docs/times/20_32.json +++ b/docs/times/20_32.json @@ -7,5 +7,14 @@ "title": "The Four Million", "author": "O. Henry", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "20:32", + "quote_first": "The origins of the Ankh-Morpork Civil War (", + "quote_time_case": "8:32 p.m.", + "quote_last": ", Grune 3,432—10:45 a.m., Grune 4,432) have always been a subject of heated debate among historians.", + "title": "Moving Pictures", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/20_35.json b/docs/times/20_35.json index 93b16c16..c72ac75c 100644 --- a/docs/times/20_35.json +++ b/docs/times/20_35.json @@ -25,5 +25,14 @@ "title": "The Listerdale Mystery", "author": "Agatha Christie", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "20:35", + "quote_first": "The main course adjourned at ", + "quote_time_case": "8:35 P.M.", + "quote_last": ", and was followed by disintegrating plums in runny custard, Mr. Prone getting slightly fewer plums as an unspoken reprimand.", + "title": "The Truth", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/22_30.json b/docs/times/22_30.json index 72180b4d..702f994c 100644 --- a/docs/times/22_30.json +++ b/docs/times/22_30.json @@ -61,5 +61,14 @@ "title": "The Hasheesh Eater", "author": "Fitz Hugh Ludlow", "sfw": "no" + }, + { + "time": "22:30", + "quote_first": "But the Quirm clock is simply a round flower bed, filled with twenty-four different types of flower, carefully chosen for the regularity of the opening and closing of their petals… As Susan ran past, the Purple Bindweed was opening and Love-in-a-Spin was closing. This meant that it was about ", + "quote_time_case": "half past ten", + "quote_last": ".", + "title": "Soul Music", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/23_15.json b/docs/times/23_15.json index ba85ce9c..945b51ef 100644 --- a/docs/times/23_15.json +++ b/docs/times/23_15.json @@ -43,5 +43,14 @@ "title": "The Hasheesh Eater", "author": "Fitz Hugh Ludlow", "sfw": "no" + }, + { + "time": "23:15", + "quote_first": "“I don’t know. You go around stopping the clocks the whole time.”
BUT IT IS NOT YET MIDNIGHT?
“I shouldn’t think it’s more than a ", + "quote_time_case": "quarter past eleven", + "quote_last": ".”
THEN WE HAVE THREE-QUARTERS OF AN HOUR.", + "title": "Reaper Man", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "yes" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/times/23_30.json b/docs/times/23_30.json index be91cb97..03b8aa7f 100644 --- a/docs/times/23_30.json +++ b/docs/times/23_30.json @@ -61,5 +61,14 @@ "title": "Under Milk Wood", "author": "Dylan Thomas", "sfw": "yes" + }, + { + "time": "23:30", + "quote_first": "“Oh, no!” Vimes put his hands over his eyes. “Not the bloody alchemists! Oh, no! Not that bloody gang of mad firework merchants! I can take the Assassins, but not those idiots! No! Please! What time is it?”
Carrot glanced at the hourglass on his belt. “About ", + "quote_time_case": "half past eleven", + "quote_last": ", captain.”
“Then I’m off to bed.”", + "title": "Men at Arms", + "author": "Terry Pratchett", + "sfw": "no" } ] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/litclock_annotated.csv b/litclock_annotated.csv index fbd44ca0..f40b249a 100644 --- a/litclock_annotated.csv +++ b/litclock_annotated.csv @@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ 01:00|One am|It was the thirtieth of May by now. One am on the thirtieth of May 1940. Quite a famous date on which to be lying awake and staring at the ceiling. Already in the creeks and tidal estuaries of England the pleasure-boats and paddle-steamers were casting their moorings for the day trip to Dunkirk. And, over on the other side, Ted stood as a good a chance as anyone else.|London Belongs to Me|Norman Collins|unknown 01:00|one|Last night of all, When yon same star that's westward from the pole Had made his course t'illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one.|Hamlet|William Shakespeare|unknown 01:00|one o'clock in the morning|The station was more crowded than he had expected to find it at - what was it? he looked up at the clock - one o'clock in the morning. What in the name of God was he doing on King's Cross station at one o'clock in the morning, with no cigarette and no home that he could reasonably expect to get into without being hacked to death by a homicidal bird?|The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul|Douglas Adams|unknown +01:00|one a.m.|Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler had wandered off and was doing a busy trade with those late-night revelers who were too drunk to prevent optimism triumphing over experience; anyone who bought a meal at one a.m. after a night’s reveling was probably going to be riotously ill anyway, so they might as well have something to show for it.|Moving Pictures|Terry Pratchett|sfw +01:00|one A.M.|Being caught at one A.M. in a bank’s deposit vault while wearing a black suit with lots of little pockets in it could be considered suspicious, so why do it?|Going Postal|Terry Pratchett|sfw 01:01|About one o’clock|"What time is it now?" she said.
"About one o’clock."
"In the morning?"
Herera’s friend leered at her. "No, there’s a total eclipse of the sun."|Freedom|Jonathan Frantzen|unknown 01:01|one minute past one o'clock|Thus it was that at one minute past one o'clock, when a preternaturally self-respecting porter dispassionately ascertained that nothing more would be required of him till morning and shut himself out of her presence, the girl subsided upon the edge of a bed of such sybaritic character as amply to warrant the designation de luxe, and, flushed and trembling with excitement (now that she dared once again to be her natural self) and with all incredulity appropriate to the circumstances, stared at the young woman who blankly stared back from a long mirror framed in the door.|Nobody|Louis Joseph Vance|sfw 01:02|two minutes past one|Fallon approached the gat at two minutes past one, his swagger evidence of his satisfaction at the turn of events.|Blood Before Sunrise|Amanda Bonilla|sfw @@ -261,6 +263,7 @@ 01:58|two minutes to two|It was two minutes to two. I checked my flashlight and envelope and let the inside of my arm touch the firmness of my holster through my jacket. It was reassuring.|Bullet for a Star|Stuart M. Kaminsky|sfw 01:58|almost two a.m.|I woke to the dogs barking. I heard a door slam, and the sound of him moving into the kitchen. The fire had died out, the new wood unburned, but the lamp was still on. I peered at my watch; it was almost two a.m. I felt cold and nauseous. I got up and smoothed my hair. I nudged Karen with a toe; she blinked awake.|The Body Lies|Jo Baker|unknown 01:59|One ... fifty-nine|For twenty minutes he sat and watched as the gap between the ship and Epun closed, as the ship's computer teased and kneaded the numbers that would bring it into a loop around the little moon, and close the loop and keep it there, orbiting in perpetual obscurity. "One ... fifty-nine …"|So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish|Douglas Adams|sfw +01:59|just before two A.M.|Ponder must have nodded off, because he was awakened just before two A.M. by a scream and realized he was face down in half of his supper.|The Last Continent|Terry Pratchett|sfw 02:00|two in the morning|So when Dom, looking agitated and desperate, pounded on Tom's door at two in the morning and said he would erase a chunk of the debt in return for an "errand," Tom knew he had no choice. Besides, this wasn't really an offer; it was a command.|The Ambition|Lee Strobel|sfw 02:00|two o’clock|“That night I awoke around two o’clock to the sound of distant thunder and realized all over again that Mr. Harrigan was dead.
I was in my bed and he was in the ground.”|If It Bleeds|Stephen King|unknown 02:00|2:00 a.m.|Then yesterday morning a student - Amy Chan - was brought into the Twin Falls station by her mother. Amy claimed she had seen Leena stumbling drunkenly along the Devil’s Bridge sidewalk at around 2:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 15.|Beneath Devil’s Bridge|Loreth Anne White|unknown @@ -286,6 +289,7 @@ 02:00|two|Lady Macbeth: Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then ’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?|Macbeth|William Shakespeare|nsfw 02:00|It struck two.|Somewhere behind a screen a clock began wheezing, as though oppressed by something, as though someone were strangling it. After an unnaturally prolonged wheezing there followed a shrill, nasty, and as it were unexpectedly rapid, chime - as though someone were suddenly jumping forward. It struck two. I woke up, though I had indeed not been asleep but lying half-conscious.|Notes from the Underground|Fyodor Dostoyevsky|unknown 02:00|two o'clock|When all had grown quiet and Fyodor Pavlovich went to bed at around two o'clock, Ivan Fyodorovich also went to bed with the firm resolve of falling quickly asleep, as he felt horribly exhausted.|The Brothers Karamazov|Fyodor Dostoyevsky|unknown +02:00|two a.m.|They couldn’t pin anything on Moist, but in the cold, wet light of two a.m., he could imagine bloody Commander Vimes worrying at this, picking away at it in that thick-headed way of his.|Making Money|Terry Pratchett|sfw 02:01|2.01 am.|I checked my watch. 2.01 am. The cheeseburger Happy Meal was now only a distant memory. I cursed myself for not also ordering a breakfast sandwich for the morning.|The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet|Reif Larsen|unknown 02:02|About two. Just past.|"The middle of the night?" Alec asked sharply. "Can you be more definite?"
"About two. Just past." Daisy noted that he expressed no concern for her safety.|Dead in the Water|Carola Dunn|unknown 02:03|three minutes past two|At three minutes past two, the lights in the motel corridor flickered and went out, leaving the long hallway in relative darkness, the spill from the stairwell the only source of illumination.|The Bourne Identity|Robert Ludlum|sfw @@ -439,11 +443,15 @@ 03:00|three|"What's the time?" said the man, eyeing George up and down with evident suspicion, "why, if you listen you will hear it strike."
George listened, and a neighbouring clock immediately obliged. "But it's only gone three!" said George in an injured tone, when it had finished.|Three Men in a Boat|Jerome K. Jerome|unknown 03:00|3:00 a.m.|When Sophie awoke, it was 3:00 a.m.|Desperate Characters|Paula Fox|unknown 03:00|three o’clock|"You hearken, Missy. It’s three o’clock in the morning and I’ve got all my faculties as well as ever I had in my life. I know all my property and where the money’s put out. And I’ve made everything ready to change my mind, and do as I like at the last. Do you hear, Missy? I’ve got my faculties."|Middlemarch|George Eliot|unknown +03:00|three a.m.|“Fred, the finest tradition of the Watch is having a quiet smoke somewhere out of the wind at three a.m. Let’s not get carried away, eh?”|Jingo|Terry Pratchett|sfw +03:00|three A.M|THERE ARE TIMES when you just have to miss a night’s sleep. But Ankh-Morpork never slept; the city never did more than doze, and would wake up around three A.M. for a glass of water.|Going Postal|Terry Pratchett|sfw 03:01|3:01 a.m.|At 3:01 a.m., Thaddeus Funston stirred in his sleep and awakened. He sat up in bed and looked around the dark ward. The quiet breathing and occasional snores of thirty other sleeping patients filled the room. Funston turned to the window and stared out across the black hills that sheltered the deserted crafts building.|A Filbert is a Nut|Rick Raphael|sfw 03:01|around three in the morning|Yesterday, at around three in the morning, I found my mother unresponsive on her bathroom floor. I’m a hero, they say, because I saved her from a lithium overdose.
I’m not a hero. This is all my fault.|Blink and We'll Miss It|Ginny Kochis|nsfw 03:01|about three o'clock|It was now about three o'clock in the morning and Francis Macomber, who had been asleep a little while after he had stopped thinking about the lion, wakened and then slept again.|The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber|Ernest Hemingway|unknown 03:01|past three o’clock|I’m not going to just lie here, she thought, and let my life be ruined! And when she heard, “God give you good morrow, my masters! Past three o’clock and a fair morning!” she flung back the covers and got out of bed, turning to shake Nan.|Forever Amber|Kathleen Windsor|sfw +03:01|around 3 A.M.|It wasn’t exactly whiskey, and it wasn’t exactly gin, but it was exactly 90° proof, and a great comfort during those worrying moments that sometimes occurred around 3 A.M. when you woke up and forgot who you were.|Lords and Ladies|Terry Pratchett|sfw 03:02|two minutes past three|But after months of checking and rechecking, Joseph Ricardo, of mixed race, born illegitimately in a Buenos Aires hospital at two minutes past three Western time on 19 October 1995, had officially been recognized.|The Children of Men|P.D. James|sfw +03:02|around 3 A.M.|“I don’t know why you think your life has been so bad,” he said. “We had a lot of fun when we were younger. Hey, do you remember the time when we went over the edge of the world?”
“Often,” said Rincewind. “Usually around 3 A.M.”|Interesting Times|Terry Pratchett|sfw 03:03|three minutes past three|At three minutes past three he began his career as one of the celebrities of the world.|The Man Who Rocked the Earth|Arthur C. Train and Robert W. Wood|sfw 03:04|3.04|He looked at his front-line clock on the bedside table and noted that it had stopped at 3.04. So, you couldn’t even rely on alarm clocks.|The Return of the Dancing Master|Henning Mankell|unknown 03:05|three-oh-five|"Five minutes ago it was three o'clock," Murphy said. "I can't be certain, but I theorize that it must now be about three-oh-five."
I folded my arms. "I don't usually do stakeouts."|White Night|Jim Butcher|sfw @@ -559,6 +567,8 @@ 04:00|At four|Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what's really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now, Making all thought impossible but how And where and when I shall myself die.|Aubade|Philip Larkin|unknown 04:00|At four|When he noticed that the chefs from the grand hotels and restaurants - a picky, impatient bunch - tended to move around from seller to seller, buying apples here and broccoli there, he asked if he could have tea available for them. Tommy agreed, and the chefs, grateful for a hot drink at four in the morning, lingered and bought.|The Tea Rose|Jennifer Donnelly|unknown 04:00|four o’clock|It was now four o’clock of a midsummer morning, and the western hills, that I could see through a hall window, began to be impurpled by reflection from the opposite horizon of the dawn.|The Hasheesh Eater|Fitz Hugh Ludlow|nsfw +04:00|four a.m.|Corporal Carrot awoke around four a.m., that secret hour known only to the night people, such as criminals, policemen and other misfits. He lay on his half of the narrow bed and stared at the wall.|Men at Arms|Terry Pratchett|sfw +04:00|4:00 A.M.|Twenty-seven people were got out of bed in quick succession and they got another fifty-three out of bed, because if there is one thing a man wants to know when he's woken up in a panic at 4:00 A.M., it's that he's not alone.|Good Omens|Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman|sfw 04:01|one minute past four|In a moment I had the office and the night editor’s desk, had told him who I was, and began to dictate. “At one minute past four by our time (see what time Paris time is for that, and put it in) a French battleship was sunk by the man who is to stop all war. Probably no one on board escaped.” That last was a guess based on the experience of the past.|The Man Who Ended War|Hollis Godfrey|sfw 04:01|Barely past four a.m.|Charlie glanced at the clock. Barely past four a.m. at home. Sunday. She'd be up. Probably reading over a cup of coffee before taking a run before church.|Soldier On|Vanessa Rasanen|unknown 04:01|just after 4 am|Suddenly, he started to cry. Curled up on the sofa he sobbed loudly. Michel looked at his watch; it was just after 4 am. On the screen a wild cat had a rabbit in its mouth.|Atomised|Michel Houellebecq|unknown @@ -670,6 +680,8 @@ 05:00|five o'clock|The day came slow, till five o'clock. Then sprang before the hills. Like hindered rubies, or the light. A sudden musket spills|The Day Came Slow, Till Five O' Clock|Emily Dickinson|unknown 05:00|5 a.m.|There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.|Things|Fleur Adcock|unknown 05:00|five o'clock|What causes young people to "come out," but the noble ambition of matrimony? What sends them trooping to watering-places? What keeps them dancing till five o'clock in the morning through a whole mortal season?|Vanity Fair|William Makepeace Thackeray|unknown +05:00|5 a.m.|Any watcher trained in reading body language would have been prepared to bet that, after the click, someone was going to suggest that they might as well go somewhere and have a few drinks, and then someone else would fancy a meal, and then there was always room for a few more drinks, and then it would be 5 a.m. and the city guards would be respectfully knocking on the University gates and asking if the Archchancellor would care to step down to the cells to identify some alleged wizards who were singing an obscene song in six-part harmony, and perhaps he would also care to bring some money to pay for all the damage.|Moving Pictures|Terry Pratchett|sfw +05:00|five a.m.|The rain was a solid curtain when he finally staggered out into the gray light of dawn. The gutters overflowed. Along the rooftops, repulsive gargoyles threw up expertly over passers-by although, since it was now five a.m., the crowds had thinned out a bit.|Moving Pictures|Terry Pratchett|sfw 05:01|one minute past five|"Oh yes. His clocks were set at one minute past five, four minutes past five and seven minutes past five. That was the combination number of a safe, 515457. The safe was concealed behind a reproduction of the Mona Lisa. Inside the safe," continued Poirot, with distaste, "were the Crown Jewels of the Russian Royal Family."|The Clocks|Agatha Christie|unknown 05:01|after five o'clock|Just after five o'clock on this chill September morning, the fishmonger's cart, containing Kirsten and Emilia and such possessions as they have been able to assemble in the time allowed to them, is driven out of the gates of Rosenborg?|Music and Silence|Rose Tremain|unknown 05:02|5:02 a.m.|It was 5:02 a.m., December 14. In another fifty-eight minutes he would set sail for America. He did not want to leave his bride; he did not want to go.|The Prize|Brenda Joyce|unknown @@ -875,6 +887,7 @@ 06:46|6:46|He bundled the papers on his desk into his briefcase and ran for the elevator. First piece of luck, it was on the top floor. Downstairs: 6:46.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:46|one minute after the quarter to seven|At one minute after the quarter to seven I heard the rattle of the cans outside. I opened the front door, and there was my man, singling out my cans from a bunch he carried and whistling through his teeth.|The Thirty-Nine Steps|John Buchan|unknown 06:47|thirteen minutes to seven|“Morning, Mark. Hell, man, is it eight o’clock already?”
“No, thirteen minutes to seven.”|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|nsfw +06:47|6:47|The time was 6:47. Jeremy glanced at the alarm clocks to make sure they were right, then pulled his dressing gown around him and hurried downstairs.|Thief of Time|Terry Pratchett|sfw 06:48|6:48|Car starts first time. Reliable Mercedes. Moves on the road: 6:48. Must stay below speed limit. Never embarrass the Bureau.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:48|6:48 A.M.|Big Al stretched and began to walk slowly around the car. He knew they planned to leave long before first light, which was at 6:48 A.M. He checked his watch: 4:17. They both looked up when a plane flew overhead, the first to land at Heathrow that morning.|A Prisoner of Birth|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:48|6:48 A.M.|His jet had touched down on the facility's runway at 6:48 A.M. and been promptly towed into the hangar. Tanzan Mino intended to be in personal command when Daedalus I went hypersonic, in just nineteen hours.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw @@ -896,6 +909,7 @@ 06:59|6:59|She barely glances up; knock on door of Director’s office; no reply; go in as instructed. No Director: 6:59; sink into easy chair. Director going to be late; smile of satisfaction.|Shall We Tell the President?|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:59|one minute to seven|At one minute to seven, Lieutenant Colonel Robertson marched up on to the stage, and everyone else in the room quickly fell silent and sprang to attention. He stopped in the center of the stage and waved the men down.|The Sins of the Father|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 06:59|6.59 a.m.|It was 6.59 a.m. on Maundy Thursday as Blomkvist and Berger let themselves into the "Millennium" offices.|The Girl Who Played with Fire|Stieg Larsson|unknown +06:59|6:59|There was a row of alarm clocks on the table by Jeremy’s bed. He did not need them, because he woke up when he wanted to. They were there for testing. He set them for seven, and woke up at 6:59 to check that they went off on time.|Thief of Time|Terry Pratchett|sfw 07:00|seven|Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o’clocks in one day.|Raising Steam|Terry Pratchett|unknown 07:00|seven o’clock|By the time the sun peered over the hills east of Rome, the city was a raucous symphony of clattering carts, hammer blows, and screaming babies. Some in the leisure class allowed themselves the luxury of slumbering on till seven o’clock, but only those who had wined to excess would rise any later.|Pontius Pilate|Paul L. Maier|unknown 07:00|seven|"And we on for a video chat tonight? I mean, in the morning? Your morning?" Charlie asked.
"Yeah, do you have a time in mind so I can be sure to be up and showered first?"
"Sure you can't video chat from the shower?" he asked.
"Not so much. No."
"Then I guess I'll settle for seven."|Soldier On|Vanessa Rasanen|nsfw @@ -919,6 +933,7 @@ 07:00|seven o’clock|At seven o’clock in the morning, Rubashov was awakened by a bugle, but he did not get up. Soon he heard sounds in the corridor. He imagined that someone was to be tortured, and he dreaded hearing the first screams of pain. When the footsteps reached his own section, he saw through the eye hole that guards were serving breakfast. Rubashov did not receive any breakfast because he had reported himself ill. He began to pace up and down the cell, six and a half steps to the window, six and a half steps back.|Darkness at Noon|Arthur Koestler|unknown 07:00|seven|I had left directions that I was to be called at seven; for it was plain that I must see Wemmick before seeing any one else, and equally plain that this was a case in which his Walworth sentiments, only, could be taken. It was a relief to get out of the room where the night had been so miserable, and I needed no second knocking at the door to startle me from my uneasy bed.|Great Expectations|Charles Dickens|unknown 07:00|seven o'clock|She locked herself in, made no reply to my bonjour through the door; she was up at seven o'clock, the samovar was taken in to her from the kitchen.|Crime and Punishment|Fyodor Dostoyevsky|unknown +07:00|7 A.M|He approved of the milkman, because he was regular and punctual and had the bottles at the doorstep every morning on the stroke of 7 A.M|Thief of Time|Terry Pratchett|sfw 07:01|one minute past seven|I took the first tentative step towards finding out at one minute past seven the next morning, in Fort Bird's mortuary.|The Enemy|Lee Child|sfw 07:02|07:02|07:02:18 One and a half hours. "Case," she said, "I wanna favour."|Neuromancer|William Gibson|sfw 07:03|7:03 a.m.|7:03 a.m. Return to bed in sulk over weight. Head-state bad. Sleeping or getting up equally out of question. Think about Daniel.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw @@ -952,6 +967,7 @@ 07:15|7:15 A.M.|At 7:15 A.M., January 25th, we started flying northwestward under McTighe's pilotage with ten men, seven dogs, a sledge, a fuel and food supply, and other items including the plane's wireless outfit.|At the Mountains of Madness|H.P. Lovecraft|unknown 07:15|7.15|Gough again knocked on Mr. and Mrs. Kent's bedroom door. This time it was opened - Mary Kent had got out of bed and put on her dressing gown, having just checked her husband's watch: it was 7.15. A confused conversation ensued, in which each woman seemed to assume Saville was with the other.|The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher|Kate Summerscale|unknown 07:15|quarter-past seven|It was early in April in the year ’83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits.|The Adventure of the Speckled Band|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|unknown +07:15|7.15|This strange loop has a curious effect on causality. We get up in the morning and leave the house at 7.15 because we have to get to work by 9 o'clock. Scientifically, this is a very bizarre form of causality: the future is affecting the past.|The Globe|Terry Pratchett|sfw 07:16|07.16|The Zombie SmartGuide works much harder to construct these fictional, time-travel tooth-brushing scenarios than it ever did on normal tooth-brushing scenarios when it was alive. It literally does this all day long. Lately it's taken to showing the transition from 07.16 to 07.17 quite frequently.|The Seed Collectors|Scarlett Thomas|sfw 07:17|7.17 am|As of 7.17 am local time on 30 June 1908, Padzhitnoff had been working for nearly a year as a contract employee of the Okhrana, receiving five hundred rubles a month, a sum which hovered at the exorbitant end of spy-budget outlays for those years.|Against the Day|Thomas Pynchon|unknown 07:18|7:18 A.M.|7:18 A.M.
"Ulysses to Sirene. Do you read me?"
When his radio crackled, Armont was in the medical facility of the Bates Motel, watching as a plasma IV was attached to Dimitri's arm. He immediately grabbed for it.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw @@ -1087,6 +1103,7 @@ 08:00|eight o'clock|Three days after the quarrel, Prince Stepan Arkadyevitch Oblonsky--Stiva, as he was called in the fashionable world-- woke up at his usual hour, that is, at eight o'clock in the morning, not in his wife's bedroom, but on the leather-covered sofa in his study.|Anna Karenina|Leo Tolstoy|unknown 08:00|exactly eight|It was a fine summer morning. The hands of the Dutch clock in the hall pointed to thirteen minutes past nine; those of the ormolu clock in the sitting-room to eleven minutes past ten; those of the carriage clock on the bookshelf to fourteen minutes to six. In other words, it was exactly eight; and Mrs. Hignett acknowledged the fact by moving her head on the pillow, opening her eyes, and sitting up in bed. She always woke at eight precisely.|Three Men and a Maid|P.G. Wodehouse|unknown 08:00|eight|When he opened the windows in the morning, the sky was as overcast as it had been, but the air seemed fresher, and regret set in. Had giving notice not been impetuous and wrongheaded, the result of an inconsequential indisposition? If he had held off a bit, if he had not been so quick to lose heart, if he had instead tried to adjust to the air or wait for the weather to improve, he would now have been free of stress and strain and looking forward to a morning on the beach like the one the day before. Too late. He must go on wanting what he had wanted yesterday. He dressed and rode down to the ground floor at eight for breakfast.|Death in Venice|Thomas Mann|unknown +08:00|8 A.M.|Crowley liked the city in the early morning. Its population consisted almost entirely of people who had proper jobs to do and real reasons for being there, as opposed to the unnecessary millions who trailed in after 8 A.M., and the streets were more or less quiet.|Good Omens|Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman|sfw 08:01|eight-one|Eight-one, tick-tock, eight-one o'clock, off to school, off to work, run, run, eight-one!|There Will Come Soft Rains|Ray Bradbury|unknown 08:01|8:01 A.M.|8:01 A.M.
Dore Peretz’ chest still felt like it was on fire, a burning sensation that seemed to spread across the entire front of his torso; in fact, he felt like shit.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|nsfw 08:02|Eight oh two|Eight oh two eh em, Death of Corporal Littlebottombottom ... Eight oh three eh em ... Death of Sergeant Detritus ... Eight oh threethreethree eh em and seven seconds seconds ... Death of Constable Visit ... Eight oh three eh em and nineninenine seconds ... Death of death of death of ...|Jingo|Terry Pratchett|unknown @@ -1170,6 +1187,7 @@ 08:30|eight-thirty|The lecture was to be given tomorrow, and it was now almost eight-thirty.|A Confederacy of Dunces|John Kennedy Toole|unknown 08:30|eight-thirty|When he woke, at eight-thirty, he was alone in the bedroom. He put on his dressing gown and put in his hearing aid and went into the living room.|Deaf Sentence|David Lodge|unknown 08:30|eight-thirty|I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning.|Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance|Robert M. Pirsig|unknown +08:30|half past eight|He woke up at half past eight, read the accumulated papers, and voided a small scream. All right, all right, he thought. There is no actual hurry, as such. We can change it back any time we like. That's what time travel means.|Darwin's Watch|Terry Pratchett|sfw 08:31|8:31 a.m.|At 8:31 a.m., MST, a woman on TWA's Flight 196 burst into tears and began to bugle her own opinion, which was perhaps not unshared among some other passengers (or even the crew, for that matter), that the plane was going to crash.|The Shining|Stephen King|sfw 08:32|eight thirty-two|He woke again with a start when the hardback of The Last Chronicle of Barset thudded to the ground. Fumbling for his watch, he saw with dismay that it was eight thirty-two, a late start to the day.|The Lighthouse|P.D. James|sfw 08:32|8:32 a.m.|It’s 8:32 a.m. on the twenty-fourth of December and Henry and I are on our way to Meadowlark House for Christmas. It’s a beautiful clear day, no snow here in Chicago, but six inches on the ground in South Haven.|The Time Traveler’s Wife|Audrey Niffenegger|unknown @@ -1332,6 +1350,7 @@ 09:15|9:15 am|9:15 am doubled over pillow, sat up to see out window.|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|sfw 09:15|9.15 a.m.|9.15 a.m. First morning class|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 09:15|quarter past nine|Miss Pettigrew pushed open the door of the employment agency and went in as the clock struck a quarter past nine.|Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day|Winifred Watson|unknown +09:15|quarter past nine|It was one of the new-fangled pocket watches, with hands. They pointed to a quarter past nine. He shook it. A small hatch opened under the 12 and a very small demon poked its head out and said, “Knock it off, guv’nor, I’m pedalling as fast as I can.”|Reaper Man|Terry Pratchett|sfw 09:16|9:16 A.M.|Thursday 9:16 A.M.
Yuri Androv stood at the far end of the flood-lit hangar, staring up at the underbelly of Daedalus I and thinking. This morning's run-up in the centrifuge had gone well. At last he was convinced there was no physiological barrier to hypersonic flight, at least none he couldn't handle.|Project Daedalus|Thomas Hoover|sfw 09:16|9:16 am|9:16 am sat in bed, staring out window.|A Fraction of the Whole|Steve Toltz|sfw 09:17|09.17 hours|The task was allocated to the Naval tug. Not only was she a more suitable vessel than a destroyer for working close inshore among rocks, she also happened to be much nearer. She sailed from Lochmaddy at 09.17 hours.|Atlantic Fury|Hammond Innes|sfw @@ -1582,6 +1601,7 @@ 10:30|10.30 a.m.|10.30 a.m. Break|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 10:30|ten thirty|according to the clock on the wall, it is barely ten thirty.|The Hours|Michael Cunningham|unknown 10:30|ten-thirty|At ten-thirty I'm cleaned up, shaved and dressed in my Easter best - a two-piece seersucker Palm Beach I've had since college.|The Sportswriter|Richard Ford|unknown +10:30|ten-thirty A.M.|“About one hundred and sixty, since the Schism of ten-thirty A.M., February twenty-third. That was when the Re-United Free Chelonianists (Hubward Convocation) split from the Re-United Free Chelonianists (Rimward Convocation). It was rather serious.”|Carpe Jugulum|Terry Pratchett|sfw 10:31|10.31 a.m.|Inspector Sanderson has told us that he examined the safe at 10.31 a.m. and found two good-sized drops of blood on the bottom.|The Red Thumb Mark|R. Austin Freeman|sfw 10:32|10:32 AM|Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 10:32 AM
Subject: RE: Meteorite
Dear Alex
I'm very well (thank you for asking), and I'm delighted to hear you're feeling so much better. With regard to your meteorite, this is an extremely generous offer (and a very welcome one!) but I need to be sure that it's definitely what you want.|The Universe versus Alex Woods|Gavin Extence|sfw 10:32|ten thirty-two|It was ten thirty-two when the bus finally rolled into view.
The bus that came was a new type, not like the one I used to take to high school.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown @@ -1691,6 +1711,7 @@ 11:01|one minute past eleven|On went the hands of the clock. At one minute to eleven all was peaceful and orderly. At eleven the masters departed for the usual brief interval. At one minute past eleven all was war and tumult!|Jack of Both Sides: The Story of a School War|Florence Coombe|sfw 11:01|just past eleven|O'Neil rises and takes the tray. He has finished the tea, but the muffins are still here in a wicker basket covered with a blue napkin. The clock above the stove says that it is just past eleven, and guests will be arriving at the house now.|Mary and O'Neil|Justin Cronin|unknown 11:01|just past eleven|It was only just past eleven. The stillness of the big room, only broken by the singing that floated up from below, made her yawn. The bronzes, the albums, and the pictures on the walls, representing a ship at sea, cows in a meadow, and views of the Rhine, were so absolutely stale that her eyes simply glided over them without observing them.|The Party and Other Stories|Anton Pavlovich Chekhov|sfw +11:01|around 11 A.M.|Not many people were on the streets. It was too hot, even for an Ankh-Morpork summer. Heat radiated from every surface. The river slunk sullenly in the bottom of its bed, like a student around 11 A.M.|Men at Arms|Terry Pratchett|sfw 11:02|11.02 am|On August 9th, three days later, at 11.02 am, another B−29 dropped the second bomb on the industrial section of the city of Nagasaki, totally destroying 1 1/2 square miles of the city, killing 39,000 persons and injuring 25,000 more.|The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|The Manhattan Engineer District|unknown 11:02|11:02|“Yes.” Perena’s firm tone brooked no argument. “It exploded at 11:07. You would have entered at 11:02, so that by then you would have been exactly midway between the Gates.”|The Shadow and Night|Chris Walley|unknown 11:03|Eleven oh-three|"What makes you think it's for real?"
"Just a hunch, really. He sounded for real. Sometimes you can just tell about people"-he smiled-"even if you're a dull old WASP."
"I think it's a setup."
"Why?"
"I just do. Why would someone from the government want to help you?"
"Good question. Guess I'll find out."
She went back into the kitchen."What time are you meeting him?" she called out.
"Eleven oh-three," he said. "That made me think he's for real. Military and intelligence types set precise appointment times to eliminate confusion and ambiguity. Nothing ambiguous about eleven oh-three."|Little Green Men|Christopher Buckley|unknown @@ -1723,6 +1744,7 @@ 11:15|quarter past eleven|A stretch of curb in front of Gerard Tower has been stenciled AUTHORIZED PARKING ONLY. At quarter past eleven a truck with a big sombrero on the side pulls up there. Below the sombrero, JOSE’S EATS. And below that, TODOS COMEN! People start leaving the building, trundling toward the truck like ants drawn to sugar.|Billy Summers|Stephen King|unknown 11:15|a quarter past eleven|The chalet stand isolated at the end of a blind valley. Higher up, there’s only the reservoir, and behind it the treacherous glacier. At a quarter past eleven, she concludes that it’s impossible for Nick to be wandering out there, in this weather.|Echo|Thomas Olde Heuvelt|unknown 11:15|11:15|"Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. Leave Paddington by the 11:15."|The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|unknown +11:15|quarter past eleven|The clock said quarter past eleven.
Vimes walked over to the door and, despite precedent, knocked gently.
There was no sound from within, no murmur of distant voices.
He tried the handle. The door was unlocked.
Lord Vetinari had always said that punctuality was the politeness of princes.
Vimes went in.|Feet of Clay|Terry Pratchett|sfw 11:16|11:16|Eventually, at 11:16, he did show up, and took his reserved place at the baccarat table. Stephen stopped sipping his tomato juice and Jean-Pierre moved over and waited patiently by the table for one of the men seated on the left or right of Harvey to leave.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:17|11:17|When Sir Matthew was directly behind his client, he checked his watch. It was 11:17. He knew his timing had to be exact, because he had become uncomfortably aware that he was dealing not only with a clever woman but also an extremely cunning one.|An Eye for an Eye|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 11:17|11:17|Ted presented himself at the front door of Number 10 at 11:17 the next day. The deputy clerk accompanied him down the long corridor to the ground floor and asked him to take a seat in the small waiting area that adjoins the Cabinet Room.|Shoeshine Boy|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -2306,6 +2328,8 @@ 15:15|quarter past three|Gordon was alone. He wandered back to the door. The strawberry-nosed man glanced over his shoulder, caught Gordon's eye, and moved off, foiled. He had been on the point of slipping Edgar Wallace into his pocket. The clock over the Prince of Wales struck a quarter past three.|Keep the Aspidistra Flying|George Orwell|unknown 15:15|3:15|I got out my old clothes. I put wool socks over my regular socks and took my time lacing up the boots. I made a couple of tuna sandwiches and some double-decker peanut-butter crackers. I filled my canteen and attached the hunting knife and the canteen to my belt. As I was going out the door, I decided to leave a note. So I wrote: "Feeling better and going to Birch Creek. Back soon. R. 3:15." That was about four hours from now.|Where I'm Calling From|Raymond Carver|unknown 15:15|3:15|July 3: 5 3/4 hours. Little done today. Deepening lethargy, dragged myself over to the lab, nearly left the road twice. Concentrated enough to feed the zoo and get the log up to date. Read through the operating manuals Whitby left for the last time, decided on a delivery rate of 40 röntgens/min., target distance of 530 cm. Everything is ready now. Woke 11:05. To sleep 3:15.|The Voices of Time|J.G. Ballard|unknown +15:15|3:15|Women weren’t allowed in the club at all except under Rule Thirty-four B, which grudgingly allowed for female members of the family or respectable married ladies over thirty to be entertained to tea in the Green Drawing Room between 3:15 and 4:30 P.M., provided at least one member of staff was present at all times.|Thief of Time|Terry Pratchett|sfw +15:15|3:15 P.M.|You couldn’t remember every little thing. Wednesday: 3 P.M., reign of terror; 3:15 P.M., clean out scorpion pit...|Feet of Clay|Terry Pratchett|sfw 15:16|1516|The Nimrod rendezvoused with the light aircraft at 1516 GMT.|The Crow Road|Iain Banks|unknown 15:17|three-seventeen|Romanov checked the clock on the wall: three-seventeen. He couldn’t believe he would need close to two hours to find out what was in the five boxes. The two Herr Bischoffs bowed and left.|A Matter of Honor|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:17|3:17|“You can take the 3:17 to Peterborough, where you’ll have to change and catch the 4:09 for Doncaster, then change again. You’ll arrive in Hull at 6:32.”|Dougie Mortimer's Right Arm|Jeffrey Archer|sfw @@ -2317,6 +2341,7 @@ 15:20|3:20|He checked his watch. Only 3:20, but that was close enough for government work. Claudette Albertson surprised him. “No, it’s Mr. Hayes, right down here on the first floor with us.”
“Are you sure?” Dan had played a game of checkers with Charlie Hayes just that afternoon, and for a man with acute myelogenous leukemia, he’d seemed as lively as a cricket.|Doctor Sleep|Stephen King|unknown 15:20|three twenty|When the phone rang at three twenty I was sprawled out on the tatami, starting at the ceiling. A pool of winter sunlight had formed in the place where I lay. Like a dead fly I lay there, vacant, in a December 1971 spotlight.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown 15:20|twenty minutes past three|At twenty minutes past three on Monday, 26 January 1948, in Tokyo, and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking and I am drinking.|Occupied City|David Peace|unknown +15:20|Twenty past one|"The trouble is, because the blasted thing can see everywhere, it's practically impossible to get it to see anywhere. At least, anywhere worth seeing. And you'd be amazed at how many places there are in the universe. And times, too."
"Twenty past one, for example," said the Patrician.|The Last Hero|Terry Pratchett|sfw 15:21|3:21 P.M.|3:21 P.M.
"Let them go," Ramirez said. "We have what we need." He bent down and picked up the box.|Project Cyclops|Thomas Hoover|sfw 15:22|3:22 P.M.|Ruth finally walked through the door at 3:22 P.M. “Any messages?” she asked the receptionist.
“No,” replied the girl, “but there is a lady waiting to see you.”|False Impression|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 15:22|3:22 P.M.|3:22 P.M.
As Stone Aimes stepped off the elevator on the sixth floor, his mind was running through his options. This phone call had to be about Winston Bartlett. He was going to step up the pressure.|Syndrome|Thomas Hoover|sfw @@ -2871,6 +2896,7 @@ 19:05|five minutes after seven|I parked at a rental lot outside O'Hare about five minutes after seven. I got out of the car with my staff and rod in hand. There was only one old light burning on the lot, but the moon had risen huge and bright, and I had no trouble seeing Michael coming.|Death Masks|Jim Butcher|sfw 19:05|five past seven|It was five past seven, a little past his normal time, when Hubert got back to the flat which he supposed he ought now to call home, but in which he still felt as ill at ease as a guest who is beginning to suspect that he has outstayed his welcome.|A Certain Justice|P.D. James|sfw 19:05|7:05 p.m.|Punctual as always, Monsignor Kevin Sullivan was in the chandeliered lobby of the Hilton at 7:05 p.m., when Jon and Shannon stepped off the elevator. This time nattily attired in clerical grays, the dark-haired, ruddy-faced son of Ireland gracefully kissed Shannon's hand and then squeezed Jon's.|The Constantine Codex|Paul L. Maier|sfw +19:05|7:05|The Patrician of Ankh-Morpork sat back on his austere chair with the sudden bright smile of a very busy person at the end of a crowded day who’s suddenly found in his schedule a reminder saying: 7:00-7:05, Be Cheerful and Relaxed and a People Person.|Men at Arms|Terry Pratchett|sfw 19:06|seven-oh-six p.m.|The time on the clock was six minutes after seven p.m. That doesn't conclusively prove that Sam Dillon was murdered at seven-oh-six p.m., but all other evidence would certainly corroborate that point.|In the Company of Liars|David Ellis|sfw 19:07|seven minutes past seven|Qantas Flight 102 touched down at Melbourne Airport at seven minutes past seven. Charlie was the first off the aircraft, running as fast as he could, but having to lug Cathy’s picture under one arm slowed him down and made it possible for several other passengers, who obviously had the same idea, to overtake him.|As the Crow Flies|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 19:07|seven minutes past seven|She fell into unconsciousness and so remained two days and five hours, until Tuesday evening at seven minutes past seven, when the release came. She was twenty-four years and five months old.|Chapters From My Autobiography|Mark Twain|sfw @@ -3093,11 +3119,13 @@ 20:30|half-past eight|The bicycles go by in twos and threes - there's a dance on in Billy Brennan's barn tonight, and there's the half-talk code of mysteries and the wink-and-elbow language of delight. Half-past eight and there is not a spot upon a mile of road, no shadow thrown that might turn out a man or woman,|Inniskeen Road: July Evening|Patrick Kavanagh|unknown 20:31|20:31|The time display read 20:31 on the same evening. Almost dusk. The scene was motionless save the soft rustling of leaves, but the rumble of a car engine and the crunch of tires on gravel must have triggered the recording.|None So Blind|Barbara Fradkin|sfw 20:32|eight thirty-two|At the station he captured Miss Lantry out of the gadding mob at eight thirty-two. "We mustn't keep mamma and the others waiting," said she. "To Wallack's Theatre as fast as you can drive!"|The Four Million|O. Henry|unknown +20:32|8:32 p.m.|The origins of the Ankh-Morpork Civil War (8:32 p.m., Grune 3,432—10:45 a.m., Grune 4,432) have always been a subject of heated debate among historians.|Moving Pictures|Terry Pratchett|sfw 20:33|20.33|20.33 Navigation officer Henri DuBois knocked his black cona coffee with four sugars over his computer console keyboard. As he mopped up the coffee, he noticed three red warning blips on his monitor screen, which he wrongly assumed were the result of his spillage.|Red Dwarf|Grant Naylor|unknown 20:34|20:34|He wrote: "Cough (hacking): 20:34 (Duration: 24 seconds)"|The Bells|Richard Harvell|sfw 20:35|8:35 p.m.|8:35 p.m. Hah! Found operating instructions under Hello! Right.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw 20:35|8.35 p.m.|Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early the next morning|Dracula|Bram Stoker|unknown 20:35|five and twenty to nine|She paused reflectively. He was keenly interested now, not a doubt of it. The murderer is bound to have an interest in murder. She had gambled on that, and succeeded. She stole a glance at the clock. It was five and twenty to nine.|The Listerdale Mystery|Agatha Christie|unknown +20:35|8:35 P.M.|The main course adjourned at 8:35 P.M., and was followed by disintegrating plums in runny custard, Mr. Prone getting slightly fewer plums as an unspoken reprimand.|The Truth|Terry Pratchett|sfw 20:36|20.36|20.36 Rimmer stood in the main wash-room on the stasis deck and combed his hair.|Red Dwarf|Grant Naylor|unknown 20:37|8:37|Pierce got to his feet and took his watch from his waistcoat, an incongruously clean gold object at the end of a soot-black chain. He snapped it open: it was 8:37.|The Great Train Robbery|Michael Crichton|sfw 20:37|8:37 P.M.|8:37 P.M.
Braque sat in a Pepto-Bismol pink toilet stall in the otherwise empty women’s bathroom and opened the jar of green sweet pepper jelly. Even with the sound of AC/DC playing and the smell of cheap bleach rising to her face, the scent of the jelly overwhelmed her senses.|Kitchens of the Great Midwest|J. Ryan Stradal|unknown @@ -3374,6 +3402,7 @@ 22:30|ten thirty|She looked at the clock; it was ten thirty. If she could get there quickly on the subway, then she could be at his house in less than an hour, maybe a bit longer if the late trains did not come so often.|Brooklyn|Colm Toibin|unknown 22:30|ten-thirty|The time was ten-thirty but it could have been three in the morning, because along its borders, West Berlin goes to bed with the dark|Smiley's People|John le Carré|unknown 22:30|half past ten o’clock|From the untoward lateness of the hour at which the dose was administered, it was half past ten o’clock before any effects began to show themselves in this case.|The Hasheesh Eater|Fitz Hugh Ludlow|nsfw +22:30|half past ten|But the Quirm clock is simply a round flower bed, filled with twenty-four different types of flower, carefully chosen for the regularity of the opening and closing of their petals... As Susan ran past, the Purple Bindweed was opening and Love-in-a-Spin was closing. This meant that it was about half past ten.|Soul Music|Terry Pratchett|sfw 22:31|10:31 p.m.|10:31 p.m. OK. OK. Calm. Penny Husbands-Bosworth's asbestos leukemia item is not on yet.|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw 22:31|10.31 p.m.|And later on, at 10.31 p.m. I went out onto the balcony to find out whether I could see any stars, but there weren't any because of all the clouds and what is called light pollution, which is light from streetlights and car headlights and floodlights and lights in buildings reflecting off tiny particles in the atmosphere and getting in the way of light from the stars. So I went back inside.|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 22:32|ten thirty-two|It was ten thirty-two when the bus finally rolled into view.
The bus that came was a new type, not like the one I used to take to high school.|Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman|Haruki Murakami|unknown @@ -3486,6 +3515,7 @@ 23:15|11:15 p.m.|11:15 p.m. Humph. Mum just rang. "Sorry, darling. It isn't Newsnight, it's Breakfast News tomorrow. Could you set it for seven o'clock tomorrow morning, BBC1?"|Bridget Jones's Diary|Helen Fielding|sfw 23:15|quarter-past eleven|On arriving home at a quarter-past eleven, we found a hansom cab, which had been waiting for me for two hours with a letter. Sarah said she did not know what to do, as we had not left the address where we had gone.|Diary of a Nobody|George and Weedon Grossmith|unknown 23:15|between fifteen and sixteen minutes past eleven|The impulse seized me to look again. The minute-hand stood half way between fifteen and sixteen minutes past eleven. The watch must have stopped; I held it to my ear; no, it was still going.|The Hasheesh Eater|Fitz Hugh Ludlow|nsfw +23:15|quarter past eleven|“I don’t know. You go around stopping the clocks the whole time.”
BUT IT IS NOT YET MIDNIGHT?
“I shouldn’t think it’s more than a quarter past eleven.”
THEN WE HAVE THREE-QUARTERS OF AN HOUR.|Reaper Man|Terry Pratchett|sfw 23:16|11:16|Eventually, at 11:16, he did show up, and took his reserved place at the baccarat table. Stephen stopped sipping his tomato juice and Jean-Pierre moved over and waited patiently by the table for one of the men seated on the left or right of Harvey to leave.|Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less|Jeffrey Archer|sfw 23:16|11.16 p.m.|But I couldn't get out of the house straightaway because he would see me, so I would have to wait until he was asleep.
The time was 11.16 p.m.
I tried doubling 2s again, but I couldn't get past 2(15) which was 32,768. So I groaned to make the time pass quicker and not think.|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw 23:17|11:17|Merral, trying to free his head, glimpsed the time on his helmet datastrip. 11:17:45. Less than a minute. They will be sending out the solar flare warnings now.|The Infinite Day|Chris Walley|unknown @@ -3515,6 +3545,7 @@ 23:30|half past eleven|He would catch the night bus for Casablanca, the one that left the beach at half past eleven.|Midnight Mass & Other Stories (The Dismissal)|Paul Bowles|unknown 23:30|half-past eleven|The Picton boat was due to leave at half-past eleven. It was a beautiful night, mild, starry, only when they got out of the cab and started to walk down the Old Wharf that jutted out into the harbour, a faint wind blowing off the water ruffled under Fenella's hat, and she put up her hand to keep it on.|The Voyage|Katherine Mansfield|unknown 23:30|half past eleven|The ship's clock in the bar says half past eleven. Half past eleven is opening time. The hands of the clock have stayed still at half past eleven for fifty years.|Under Milk Wood|Dylan Thomas|unknown +23:30|half past eleven|“Oh, no!” Vimes put his hands over his eyes. “Not the bloody alchemists! Oh, no! Not that bloody gang of mad firework merchants! I can take the Assassins, but not those idiots! No! Please! What time is it?”
Carrot glanced at the hourglass on his belt. “About half past eleven, captain.”
“Then I’m off to bed."|Men at Arms|Terry Pratchett|nsfw 23:31|twenty-nine minutes to midnight|It is twenty-nine minutes to midnight. Dr. Narlikar's Nursing Home is running on a skeleton staff; there are many absentees, many employees who have preferred to celebrate the imminent birth of the nation, and will not assist tonight at the births of children.|Midnight's Children|Salman Rushdie|unknown 23:32|In about twenty-eight minutes it will be midnight.|"This is the evening. This is the night. It is New Year´s Eve. In about twenty-eight minutes it will be midnight. I still have twenty-eight minutes left. I have to recollect my thoughts. At twelve o´clock, I should be done thinking."|The Evenings|Gerard Reve|unknown 23:32|11.32 p.m.|And then it started to rain and I got wet and I started shivering because I was cold.
And then it was 11.32 p.m. and I heard voices of people walking along the street.
And a voice said, "I don't care whether you thought it was funny or not," and it was a lady's voice.|The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time|Mark Haddon|sfw