What the Telemeter Measures

The outermost scale on Angelus’s new triple-function instrument was built to measure approaching danger. Fifty examples exist. None will ever measure anything.

I occupy the highest ground. On the Instrument de Mesures I am the telemeter, the outermost ring, set at the periphery of a dial built in three dimensions — a domed centre, a raised edge, and a sloping middle section between them — so that I look down on everything below me. The dial was not printed. It was laser-cut into the material itself, the markin…