"Time lodges outside the clock,
" he whispers, rolling up his sleeves.
A glance at a watch then at the other, and the physicist Étienne Klein explains immediately: "
This one works badly but I find it very beautiful, this one is not pretty but works impeccable."
On one side, the leather strap topped with an elegant dial stamped Urban Jürgensen;
on the other, a luminescent black circle on which scroll figures indicating calories, height differences, steps, pulsations.
The author of the
Time factor never rings twice
(Flammarion, 2007) carries his ambivalence, his intimate conflict between his aesthetic, philosopher, contemplative part, and this other part, more efficient, devilishly active and rational ...
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