[tictoc]

Say, are you the tictoc man that suggested repentance to the harlequin, so long ago?

No, but you have made me curious. Who dat?

[epluribus_2]

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

There is no finer opening to a scifi/horror/any story....

[Lurking Libertarian]

Who dat?

One of Harlan Ellison's early short stories is called "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Tic-Toc Man."

[jwfiv]

Sorry to be so obtuse. I was making a pun, and wondering if you take your handle from the old Harlan Ellison story, "Repent Harlequin, Said The Tick-Tock Man." Never read it, but have always loved the poetry in that title.