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Originally Posted by carnation
What was with the clock and clock gears motif?
The technical stuff and the scenery-- incredible!  |
You have to read the book to really get the gist of that, and even then . . . .
It's a religious (as in Ozian religion) thing. From
the Wiki:
The Clock of the Time Dragon: A traveling show, which contains many magicked tik-tok puppets that act out prophetic scenes. At the top of the tower-like container that holds the show, there is a painted clock, hands perpetually at one minute to midnight and above that, a tik-tok dragon so lifelike as to strike awe in the hearts of all who see it. It is the center of the pleasure faith religion and is accompanied by the dwarf. Elphaba is born inside the Time Dragon, and receives the revelation that the Wizard is her father from the Dragon. Many of the characters in the Dragon's shows are later hunted down and killed or at least harassed, including Elphaba's parents and Turtle Heart.
If you've read any of Baum's other Oz books, you may remember that Tic-Toc was a robot-like character in some of the later books.