第14页 The Judgement of Thamus

But what the monks did not foresee was that the clock is a means not merely of keeping track of the hours but also of synchronizing and controlling the actions of men. And thus, by the middle of the fourteenth century, and brought a new and precise regularity to the life of the workman and the merchant. “The mechanical clock,” as Lewis Mumford wrote, “made possible the idea of regular production, regular working hours and a standardized product.” In short, without the clock, capitalism would have been quite impossible. The paradox, the surprise, and the wonder are that the clock was invented by men who wanted to devote themselves more rigorously to God; it ended as the technology of greatest use to men who wished to devote themselves to the accumulation of money. In the eternal struggle between God and Mammon, the clock quite unpredictably favored the latter.
关于机械表这项发明的弊端. 
在 Michael Haneke 「冰川三部曲」其一的电影 第七大陆 中, 表是一个无处不在的意象. 作者关于钟表的这番论述, 在我看来, 可以很好地解释影片中钟表出现的用意.
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第七大陆 (豆瓣): https://movie.douban.com/subject/1437410/