The Clock Room

Room containing upwards of one thousand clocks, the ticking of their second hands producing complex, swirling and ever-changing patterns and rhythms.

Inhabited by The Librarian's brother, Isiah who's formerly brilliant mind has been destroyed by his need for objective, absolute truths in a world of ever-shifting subjectivity. He flits from brief periods of euphoric dancing and singing when he feels he has found the secret rhythm of the zetigeist and is able to surf its wave and lengthier periods of intense internal confusion, agony and panic when he is unable to anchor himself within the ticking.

The lessons he has learnt cannot be unlearned and his brain is an active warzone where his ideological attachments to beauty, truth and human morality are locked in mortal combat.

He is consulted, not by The Librarian but fringe members of the library's community as a sort of oracle. Some believe him to have a telepathic link to a source of universal truth and his garbled utterances are pored over by quasi disciples, though he claims no such ability and in occasional moments of lucid clarity opines that he has continued his journey into as a warning to others, not a guide.