Clock Book

A quick search of the Internet reveals that the average adult reading speed is ~250 words per minute. Also, there are 24 hours in a day, divided incrementally into 60 minute, then 60 second intervals. Therefore, on each page of this 1440 page book, a page for every minute of the day, there is 250 words. In order for the reader to more accurately keep time down to the second, the prose is written in a steady meter. Therefore, at any given point while reading this tome, the hermit can be queried as to the time, so the present line of verse is read aloud to indicate to others who are also in possession of the book, what time it was when they began searching for it in their own volumes.