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The clocks in a Spanish village have begun to melt during a heatwave, distorting the scale of time in a dreamlike spectacle.
In Figueras, a small Catalan village, a bewildering phenomenon has been occurring for the past few days. The strange anomaly began when traditional clocks in homes and businesses slowly started transforming into soft watches, reminiscent of those immortalized by Salvador Dali in his famous work, “The Persistence of Memory.”
Figueras is now gripped by an absurd time difference. The hands of the clocks, now loose and drooping, seem to operate according to their own nonlinear logic, turning minutes into hours and seconds into days. The townspeople, intrigued, have taken to observing these melting clocks in an attempt to decipher this new scale of time. Disorientation is at its peak, but the air is filled with a kind of surreal joy.
“What’s fantastic is that no one seems to worry about the situation. We are all like children, amazed by this nonsensical spectacle,” says Maria Gonzalez, owner of a local bakery, as she gazes at her pendulum clock, now dramatically bent and stretched towards the ground.
To add to the strangeness, a quote purportedly from Dali himself has appeared in the village center, painted in large bright red letters on a wall: “Time is the best author: it always finds a perfect ending.” The town council, far from seeking to resolve this mystery, has embraced it as a new spontaneous tourism attraction and a tribute to the local surrealist painter.
As the clocks continue to melt in Figueras, the inhabitants are adapting to their new dreamlike reality. More and more of them now prefer to wake up to the crowing of roosters rather than rely on their soft watches. After all, as Dali so aptly put it, “One should not fear perfection, for one will never reach it.”
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