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His less accurate grandmother Poetry has always been understood to start in the middle; but on reflection it appears that her proceeding is not very different from his; since Science, too, reckons backward as well as forward, divides his unit into billions, and with his clock-finger at Nought really sets off _in medias res_.
Daniel Deronda George Eliot 1849
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(noun) - The hand of a clock. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1893
April 22, 2018