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A person lies awake in bed at night, glancing at a glowing digital clock showing 2:18, in an oil painting style.

A person lies awake in bed at night, glancing at a glowing digital clock showing 2:18, in an oil painting style.
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All images will be in a **realistic classical oil painting style**, people shown using the clocks, with authentic historical settings, but unified painterly tone so the slideshow feels cohesive. --- ### **Intro (2 images)** **Image 1 – “The Question of Nighttime”** * Scene: A modern person lying awake in bed at night, glancing at a glowing bedside clock. * Text: *“Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night, wondering how much longer you have to sleep?”* **Image 2 – “The Ancients’ Problem”** * Scene: Ancient people looking up at the night sky with puzzled expressions, no tools visible, only stars above. * Text: *“The only difference between you and them is that you have a readily available clock, and they had to invent theirs.”* --- ### **Water Clocks (3 images)** **Image 3 – “Clepsydra Basin”** * Scene: A Greek man in a dimly lit chamber watching water drip from a hole in a decorated basin, carved hour marks visible. * Text: *“The first way the men of old discovered how to measure sunless time was the flow of water.”* **Image 4 – “Courtroom Clepsydra”** * Scene: A Greek courtroom scene, where an orator speaks while a court official monitors the water clock. * Text: *“This made it very useful in courts where it was referred to as a ‘clepsydra’.”* **Image 5 – “The Problem with Water”** * Scene: Same type of basin shown in winter outdoors, water frozen; another version in summer sun, evaporating. * Text: *“If it were too hot, the water would evaporate, and if it were too See more

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