Deep inside the lane and away from the bustle the door quietly opened to the world of time.
World of Time, yes, that was the name of the shop though it resembled more a curio shop with the man at the counter as antique as the time long flown away.
I want a clock to gift to somebody, said I, amid the chiming and ticking that if listened to for long, I was sure would lull even the alert into sleep.
Thanks for stepping in, said the man, with a hint of smile passing across his face, nobody cares for time anymore, it's banished, but for the connoisseurs still enchanted by the melodious rhyme of swinging pendulum, a midnight music, half listened in dream.
There's the clock chiming hourly music, the man pointed, big but worth having, obviously a misfit in the shrinking space, but I say, don't compress all into small, like say, he smiled, love and heart.
He set the music on and slowly everything melted from before my eyes...
I was carried home from the pavement and some days later I returned.
World of Time, an old man recollected, was wound up long time back.