The Cutz Chronometer
Sent north to Cutz by Iucounu the Laughing Magician, with Firx clamped to his liver, Cugel the Clever walks the long road back south. This chronometer has him walk it once a day.
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League 0 of 1,440
Stage 1 of 9
FIRX
By Cugel's patent reckoning
0
Grand Chimes
0
Lesser Bells
0
Sestinas
0
Jiffies
After The Eyes of the Overworld (1966) by Jack Vance. The stages, the leagues and the patent units are this chronometer's own inventions; the book's road is longer and stranger.