Mass chaos ensued this weekend as Aretha Modelchild's 'Temporal Mischief' project was unveiled in Central London.
Act 1 of a spuriously 5-parted sequence of time-related interventions consisted of unanchoring the Prime Meridian Line from underneath the Greenwich Observatory and setting it free to waft unaided on the breeze, like a rogue bookmark for World Time.
The piece, entitled Time Flies, has caused outraged local Cockney tribes to issue wild threats and start fires that spell out the words 'shocked and saddened' when viewed from overhead by a flock of migrating geese.
A wildly unforeseen consequence of the project saw a length of the Prime Meridian caught in the River Thames, where it languished soggily for many hours. Onlookers with measuring tape and scales claim that the submerged section has absorbed up to 422 gallons of Thames water.
Not only this, the alarmingly high absorbency rate of the Prime Meridian has prompted entrepeneuring industrialists to begin scientific trials on southerly sections of the line (procured from poor countries such as Mali) with a view to selling offcuts and snippets of the imaginary line as feminine sanitary absorbent hygiene tampon products.
Unfortunately sections of Mali are now expected to fall foul of 'timevoids' - gaps in the Meridian Line which induce a permanent feeling of 'Sundayness' where nothing ever happens and dusty afternoons drag on like an arid Smiths song (probably 'How Soon Is Now'...)
2006-10-11 @ 16:55