Excerpt from The Vision of Anton Anton was apprentice to an old craftsman who made clocks to help very rich people to know the time of the day. No one but the rich could afford to buy clocks in those days, so the old clock-maker needed but one assistant. They were crude clocks with but one hand, but they served the purpose. Anton, however, had a soul in his body, and he became very tired of bending eternally over his work bench, making one-handed clocks for people he didn't know. His was a restless sort of soul, but a ...
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Excerpt from The Vision of Anton Anton was apprentice to an old craftsman who made clocks to help very rich people to know the time of the day. No one but the rich could afford to buy clocks in those days, so the old clock-maker needed but one assistant. They were crude clocks with but one hand, but they served the purpose. Anton, however, had a soul in his body, and he became very tired of bending eternally over his work bench, making one-handed clocks for people he didn't know. His was a restless sort of soul, but a starved one, and it didn't know how to show Anton the way to better things. So Anton decided to find out for himself. As he went about the streets of a Sunday he heard of the good gray monks that lived beyond the hill. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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