Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman

Ellison, Harlan. "'Repent, Harlequin!' Said the Ticktockman." Galaxy Dec. 1965. Frequently rpt., including Nebula Award Stories. Damon Knight, ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. World's Best Science Fiction: 1966. Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr, eds. New York: Ace, 1966. The Hugo Winners. Vol. 2. Isaac Asimov, ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. Science Fiction: The Future. Dick Allen, ed. 1st and 2d edns. New York: Harcourt, 1971, 1983.

See for the Harlequin, a Trickster figure, in opposition to the Ticktockman and the mechanized, efficient, time-worshipping, Taylorized society he represents. (On F. W. Taylor and Taylorism, see G. Beauchamp, "Man as Robot: The Taylor System in We," and C. Rhodes's "Frederick Winslow Taylor's System of Scientific Management in Zamiatin's We".)

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