Theme of the short story:

In an unnamed place and time, a majestic villa overlooks a garden of delicate, glass-stemmed flowers. Home to Count Axel and the Countess, the otherwise elegant landscape is unsettled by a dark blot on the horizon. It is an army of furious workers, drawing nearer day by day. To slow its approach, Axel plucks the time flowers from his garden; each one dissolves in a burst of light which rewinds time itself, and so the threatening horde shifts back on the skyline. This solution, however, is only temporary. The garden of time is faltering, the flowers are almost all gone, and the masses will soon arrive to take their long-awaited revenge.

Eventually there are no more "time flowers" and the "army of furious workers" over run their little, fake paradise.

In other words: Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming.

"magical time-slowing flowers" adrenochrome

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But nothing can stop what is coming right?

lol

All the gender-bender boys go to this. Sam Smith, Harry Styles, Troye Sivan, Eddie Redmayne, Lewis Hamilton etc etc.

"Antisemitism" laws was one of the flowers... it hasn't been as effective this time

Ballard is a wonderful writer, and the story is worth reading.

They have to tell us what they plan

I bet a socialist or communist wrote that story.

Slow time, the plants can't grow, plants can't grow eventually you can't pluck, then they are there. Inevitability

Love it!